2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumShe's a Republican at Heart or it seems she wants their support forgetting about the left
"More broadly, Mrs. Clintons campaign is re positioning itself, after a year of emphasizing liberal positions and focusing largely on minority voters, to appeal to independent and Republican-leaning white voters turned off by Mr. Trump.
With the Democratic nomination in sight, Mrs. Clinton has broadened her economic message, devoted days to apologizing for a comment she previously made that angered working-class whites, and pledged that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who remains widely popular among the blue-collar voters drawn to Mr. Trump, would come out of retirement and be in charge of creating jobs in places that have been particularly hard hit.
Graphic: 2016 Delegate Count and Primary Results
The effort is a striking turn after she spent the past year trying to to mobilize the liberal wing and labor leaders in the Democratic Party. But her campaign, confident that the young people and liberals backing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will come around to support Mrs. Clinton in November, is focusing its efforts on white working-class women and suburban women who tend to vote for Republican presidential candidates, but who polls show hold negative views of Mr. Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/us/politics/hillary-clinton-republican-party.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
will somebody help me here I need to see the throw up icon badly..
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Give up this nonsense.
No, wait ... don't. Its too much fun to watch!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Albright: 'special place in hell' for women who don't support Clinton
Feminist Gloria Steinem says young women support Bernie because they want attention from boys.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,791 posts)Just type : then the word puke then another :
cali
(114,904 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Suburban women are voters who can swing elections.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I did kinda think she'd wait until after the primary to lurch rightwards, though. Silly me...
Broward
(1,976 posts)msongs
(67,496 posts)Response to bkkyosemite (Original post)
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99Forever
(14,524 posts)Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)As election 2000 shows the democrats can still win without a sizable portion of the left.
With a greater margin than Obama had in 2008 it looks like Clinton has the support of the bases.
Were is the largest pool of disaffected uncommitted voters? Is it to Clinton's right or left?
What about populists?
Unlike Sanders, Clinton will have to appeal to a large and diverse electorate. Which group will assure her victory and which group will alienate the most voters if she tries to curry favor with it?
The first large group which can hand Clinton the election and says I'll help you if you give me ABC is probably going to get a plumb.
Which group will that be. the right or the left?