2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If HRC IS nominated, she will HAVE to get every Sanders voter behind her to win... [View all]Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)So she had better change her tactics and her tune, and HER PLATFORM, and fast. The post-convention bump is, if you will permit the pun, a 20th century convention. It is based on the idea that the extra media exposure (during that same convention) will make more voters favor the candidate. Especially the undecided voters.
But we are talking about a candidate who is more disliked once people get to know her better. Repeating the same "oh look she is really nice if only you believe us" arguments isn't going to woo those who are already familiar with a range of counterarguments. It will only woo voters who have thusfar been undecided, the independents hovering between GOP and Democratic Party. Convention exposure does not - especially in an anti-establishment year - necessarily benefit a candidate who has to woo voters to her left. (Clinton has 70% of all voters to her left.)