Carefully screened voters. Voters who won’t mind waiting to hear her position on controversial issues until after she’s elected.
Hillary's low-risk listening tour
Clinton’s foray into Iowa was an exercise in preaching to the choir, executed in the safety of controlled environments.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-low-risk-listening-tour-117025#ixzz3sXgKGEDw
Another Democrat considering a Clinton challenge, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb, challenged Clinton's reliance on a “financial leviathan machine” aiming to raise millions of dollars or a campaign aide “whispering what I should say or how I should dress or whether I ought to go to Walmart or not,” he said on CNN’s State of the Union.
As Webb’s comments suggest, Clinton’s travels through Iowa were meticulously staged, with most of the people she met in front of the media pre-screened. Media access to the candidate during on-the-road stops was pre-planned and limited to a small group of journalists. Republicans cast the Iowa trip as a sign that Clinton is so risk-averse and so out of touch that even the “everyday people” with whom she interacts must be carefully chosen.
—David Weigel contributed to this report from Nashua.
http://bloom.bg/dg-ws-core-bcom-a1
So I decided to do what Hillary didn’t — stop along the way, get off I-80 here and there, and listen. I wanted to learn what she would have if her first effort to connect with voters had not been first vetted by her staff, not pre-screened, not a stage prop for the massive billion-dollar electoral apparatus that formally whirred to life this week.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/04/17/the-voices-hillary-rodham-clinton-didn-hear/gGhQmBvQygiiYJAnWUdIOJ/story.html
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