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Hillary Clinton's social media campaign aide: 'We were never the cool candidate'
The Washington Examiner ^ | November 12, 2017 | Naomi Lim

Posted on 11/12/2017 11:25:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The deputy social media director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign admits she never had "the cool candidate."

"We were never the cool candidate," Emmy Bengtson wrote in a Medium post commemorating the one-year anniversary since the election. "It was very, very hard to convince people to 'come out' with their support of Hillary."

Bengtson, who started at Clinton's Brooklyn headquarters in May 2015, said instead the team "showed why knowing issues inside and out and never, ever quitting were worthy of the same respect."

Nov. 8, 2016, was "the best day and the worst night of my life," Bengtson recalled in the post....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016; hillary; internet; trump
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What the hell are you talking about? You had almost everyone in popular culture, media and the rest behind you.
1 posted on 11/12/2017 11:25:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I'll never understand why Hillary didn't record a Rap song. That would have cinched things for her. /sarc
2 posted on 11/12/2017 11:31:47 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. What a nice nonsequitur from another Clinton stooge:
Emmy Bengtson wrote in a Medium post... "It was very, very hard to convince people to 'come out' with their support of Hillary." ...said instead the team "showed why knowing issues inside and out and never, ever quitting were worthy of the same respect."
The election iin 2016 showed that control of the old-line media -- and that control is nearly complete -- is no longer enough to fool enough go-along-to-get-along drones. Here's another tip for Hitlery and her ilk -- when you attack one gender during the campaign, and then you blame one gender for your loss, then attack half of the other gender for helping out, while also attacking ALL of the media (including the one prominent Demwit shill who bothered to ask just ONE question about just ONE of Hildebeast's scandals) which was entirely in the bag for your campaign, YOU WILL LOSE. Hiterly ran the most divisive campaign of all time, which was difficult, because Obama had set the previous record.
3 posted on 11/12/2017 11:37:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My God - will we EVER be done with the endless excuse making for Hillary’s loss?


4 posted on 11/12/2017 11:37:18 PM PST by tballard56
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bernie was “bae”.
Obama was the Golden Child.

Hillary was Nana Pickles.


5 posted on 11/13/2017 12:06:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama was the ‘COOL” candidate. Trump was the ‘REAL” candidate.


6 posted on 11/13/2017 12:07:07 AM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

600 hours in the makeup chair during the scampaign. So much lipstick on a pig.


7 posted on 11/13/2017 12:07:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Alinsky model on steroids.


8 posted on 11/13/2017 12:35:06 AM PST by Enduro Guy (Always cov fe'fe)
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Hillary’s so cool, they call her coolo.


9 posted on 11/13/2017 12:41:51 AM PST by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She (and by extension, the media) thought she was the heir apparent, waiting for her coronation.

Then an election happened, which brought their delusion to a sudden and painful halt.


10 posted on 11/13/2017 1:14:19 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It was very, very hard to convince people to ‘come out’ with their support of Hillary.”
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Actually, Hillary supporters were gleefully abusive of anyone NOT voting for Hillary and proud of it. They bragged on social media about yelling at people in social settings for being against “decency” (i.e., Hillary, I kid you not).


11 posted on 11/13/2017 1:18:22 AM PST by ransomnote
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A very important point on your part.

Hillary was supposed to be a sure thng....

This arrogance showed up in all of the campaigning.

America wasnt buying it.


12 posted on 11/13/2017 1:55:09 AM PST by Liz ( .)
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This is certainly not “cool”.

Why aren’t I 50 points ahead, you might ask???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyOfDQZECc


13 posted on 11/13/2017 2:18:38 AM PST by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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....and calling voters ‘deplorables” was uncool.....


14 posted on 11/13/2017 2:23:12 AM PST by Liz ( .)
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To: SunkenCiv

This know-nothing Hillary whore has the unmitigated gall to tell us Trump’s tweeting shows a lack of “restraint.”

Who the hell is she to judge? Nothing but a loser.


15 posted on 11/13/2017 2:31:27 AM PST by Liz ( .)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ditto. She had zero charm and hardly ever smiled. I suspect it was health related. But that is not why she lost. She had no message for rural flyover country voters that were tired of the Obama administration.


16 posted on 11/13/2017 2:32:44 AM PST by EVO X
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe next time they should run her body double. She seemed much more likeable.


17 posted on 11/13/2017 2:40:17 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Nope. She was the Kool-Aid candidate.

Yeah, yeah. I know they drank poisoned fruit punch at Jonestown, but that joke wouldn't work.

18 posted on 11/13/2017 2:50:37 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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19 posted on 11/13/2017 2:59:57 AM PST by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat' PR firm. Mainstream "news" = Fiat news.)
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and apparently they were not content being the most crooked.


20 posted on 11/13/2017 3:11:23 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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