"Never underestimate the power of a Clinton campaign" said I.
Back when this campaign season began I repeatedly said to people, "never underestimate the power of a Clinton campaign." I said this because of my first hand experience with Bill Clinton's first campaign back in 1992. I was a college student on a campus with an overwhelming majority of Republicans, young and otherwise. I started the first campus organization for Democrats because I believe we need to be informed about both sides and we need to vote. Before this campus club for Democrats it had been decades since Democrats were represented at this university. But I digress, I was working in this election to register voters, GOTV, I was part of "the youth corps for Clinton/Gore and while working in this effort for months I was ridiculed by Young Republicans who told me repeatedly that Clinton had "no chance in hell" of being elected. And, by the way, this was the height of the "family values" era for the Republicans. I recall making signs to counter that fiction that read, "Family values, Bush teach Neil not to steal!" But, again, I digress, so Democrats kept working and finally it was Election Day. I remember going to the campus coffee shop that evening to watch the returns. Even then Young Republicans were taunting me in their dismissive tone, "dream on" and "it's never going to happen" and stuff like that. I replied "we'll see" which was my standard response. When the results started coming in it was like a blue wave, with a couple of red blotches here and there. So, again I say, never underestimate the power of a Clinton campaign.
http://www.270towin.com/1992_Election/
Oh, and, that year at an event in Houston, Bill Clinton shook my hand and said, "I like your sign" which read, "Bush lives in Maine, this Texan for Clinton."
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record high voter registrations and the turnout exceeding 2012 combined with other factors, she can do this...we can do this.
My sincere hope is that she gets 525 EVs or more in order to break the record for highest EVs ever which, unfortunately, Ronnie Raygun holds. However, that being said, I strongly believe that Hillary will get more EVs than Pres. Bill Clinton and more than Pres. Barack Obama.
The Audacity of Hope huh
