2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI'm feeling more and more respect for the Clinton campaign's...
.. decision to lie low in August. Sure, it lets Trump step all over himself, and it does let the sharp edge of the latest e-mail fit dull (what was the latest, anyway???), but it also creates anticipation. Where's Hillary? Why doesn't she say something? All they've got to talk about is how long since her last press conference.
So now she's making headlines by irrelevancies like sharing the plane with reporters (apparently SOP for campaigns some time after they officially begin.) And her appearances today and those of Biden, Kaine and Bill are being covered.
And we didn't get tired of her. I bet even Trump supporters are getting tired of him.
I'm looking forward to an exciting couple of months.
unblock
(52,181 posts)it's not a great system, but given the rules we have, it's great that she was able to build up a nice war chest for some major october ad buys
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)a Candidates entire campaign like the GOP has.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)ignoring Hillary.
They have walled themselves off from the only leader qualified to lifting this nation out of the hell the Republican Party dumped America into.
Hope she never grants them another interview until they learn how to do their damn job on behalf of this country & all its citizens.
They created Trump
Ligyron
(7,624 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that enormous change would happen without great opposition, including from institutionalized power bases?
We elected our first black president most of a decade ago by a solid majority, yet the backlash against that is still churning--not just against him and his family but against far more vulnerable black and other minority people across the nation.