2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann has advice for the Hillary Clinton Campaign [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)mistake. One of her supporters who is a friend of mine, who had been interested in Bernie but felt a certain loyalty to Hillary, switched to Bernie after that remark.
Women are NOT victims and certainly not very privileged white women like her. There certainly are victims, but it is laughable for her to make that claim.
It thoroughly disgusted ALL of the women I spoke to across the country.
She really harmed herself with that ridiculous remark.
Using race, gender etc to try to score political points, is very unpopular with voters. THEY want to hear politicians talk about the issues that matter to them. Not silly, high school nonsense which only makes a candidate look weak.
Whoever is advising here is doing a terrible job.
However I'm not going to compain since it got me one of her former supporters for Bernie today, and I'll be working on gettting a few more for the rest of the week.
Put it this like the Brock debacle, it totally backfired.
Hillary should stick to the issues as Bernie does, people are not interested in smears and political tricks, they are more than tired of that nonsense. They have REAL problems and all that did was to say to them 'I'm more interested in playing political games.