2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The first woman EVER was running, and Trump got 42% of the female vote; abortion issue to blame? [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)If you think Hillary campaigned at the same level Trump did, you are delusional. He was out there every day with LARGE rallies. She went 40 days after the convention doing numerous fund raisers and a few small greetings, but almost no large rallies. It was as if her campaign manager told her "Don't worry. We are way ahead in the polls. And nothing important happens until the debates.
And where was that campaign manager? Do you even know who her campaign manager was? We saw Kellyanne Conway 50 times a day. I find that woman loathsome, but she worked her ass off too.
When Obama ran, we saw Axelrod all the time, and we saw Plouffe a lot. That is an important part of making the case, ESPECIALLY when you have a candidate with such high negatives and so much baggage.
Democrats had better learn some lessons here. So far it doesn't seem that is happening.