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Hillary Clinton's sneakily brilliant launch
CNN ^ | 04/18/2015 | Martha Pease

Posted on 04/18/2015 5:40:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

This week, Hillary Clinton surprised the world yet again — not with the official launch of her campaign but for the unconventional way she did it. She sure pushed the envelope. With her video, new logo and road trip, she opened a long communications campaign not only to "rebrand" herself but to completely reframe who she is, what she stands for and how she intends to run.

We'll find out over the next year and a half whether it will work. Many in the press and on late-night television scratched their heads this week; others were scathing.

Ruth Marcus -- a columnist for the Washington Post -- dismissed her launch video as a "relentlessly, insultingly vapid" effort of "demographic box-checking." Jon Stewart lampooned it as a "State Farm commercial gone viral" and also "boring as s---." Since the media will likely be the stand-in primary opponent for Hillary, their belief in her authenticity is a critical factor in whether she can reframe herself in voter's eyes.

But from a marketing perspective, her launch may have been much more successful than critics think. The YouTube announcement video took on the central strategic challenge for the campaign and candidate: To flip Clinton's message from self-absorbed "I" to empathetic "we."

While critics may sneer, it is hard to deny that the image it projects of Hillary is more confident, fresher, simpler and forward-looking, with even a bit of the upstart feel of two of the most successful product launch companies, Nike and Apple. Clinton's team may have begun to create an empathetic relationship with voters that has eluded her in the past, most crucially when she lost the nomination fight to Barack Obama in 2008.

In marketing terms, rebranding is a strategy to bring a new name, term, symbol or design

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; campaign; clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton
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To: SeekAndFind
...it is hard to deny that the image it projects of Hillary is more confident, fresher, simpler and forward-looking, with even a bit of the upstart feel of two of the most successful product launch companies, Nike and Apple.


21 posted on 04/18/2015 6:07:49 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
surely it must be another Obama Staffer... the naming "convention" sure has that Lorretta LYNCH josh EARNEST...sort of a feel about it!

now THIS is Rebranding!!!




22 posted on 04/18/2015 6:09:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just want her to “iron my shirts”.


23 posted on 04/18/2015 6:09:52 PM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

“she opened a long communications campaign not only to “rebrand” herself but to completely reframe who she is, what she stands for and how she intends to run.”

Anyone who believes Hillary has actually changed any position she’s suddenly adopted during this “rebranding” and “reframing” is a flat out fool.


24 posted on 04/18/2015 6:12:19 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Right - keep telling yourself that.....


25 posted on 04/18/2015 6:12:35 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: SoFloFreeper
The “journalist” who scribbled this is
Martha Appease???

Close.

Sally Sweetlies...


26 posted on 04/18/2015 6:14:26 PM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: Talisker

Article summary: “She meant to do that”


27 posted on 04/18/2015 6:16:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Drink the drink of the Democrat leadership.

NEW IMPROVED!

Hillary! KOOL-AID!

Available at Jonestown and party
headquarters everywhere.


28 posted on 04/18/2015 6:19:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Martha Pease is a true Hillary sycophant, writing pap.

What a bizarre mind she has to try and make lemonade out of a lemon, as applied perfectly to Hillary’s non-announcement, announcement. Who buys that soup of an analysis?


29 posted on 04/18/2015 6:21:07 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Liz
It still blows me away that her following has been ignored since the last election cycle, now she's doing another stupid "listening" tour, nodding and smiling as if she gives a rip, and these dumbass voters believe she cares.

The electorate is an ass.

30 posted on 04/18/2015 6:23:11 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks for posting those, I was just wondering what others looked like.

Hillary’s is awful and I assume I would think that even if I was a crazy person and thought she was the cat’s meow, because it is truly bad. As one of the snarky lib gals on the Sirius POTUS channel said: it looks like a sign directing you to a hospital. Which might have been quite effective in ‘08 when everyone felt we were in an economic emergency. But now that’s somewhat quelled and Obama (with Madame Hillary’s help) has set the middle east on fire I’m not sure it’s the way to go.

Speaking of fire, it is interesting that Rand Paul and Ted Cruz both have the flame (of liberty I suppose) in theirs.

To me the Cruz logo looks quite religious (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It really looks like the flame that burns in the sacred heart of Jesus. But Cruz isn’t an RC, is he?

I don’t like Rubio’s, I’d file it under: too cute by half and not easy to read.

But I’ll give all three props for actually having some designs made. As the snarky lib gal also said: imagine, Hillary probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that “H”.


31 posted on 04/18/2015 6:24:02 PM PDT by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: RitaOK
Martha Pease is a true Hillary sycophant, writing pap.

(Nov 7, 2016) Martha Pease, Washington, DC -- Hillary Clinton lost in a landslide against Ted Cruz last night, but one has to wonder if this isn't actually a brilliant strategy to take office on January 20th of next year.

Electors do not have to vote for the person their electorate have voted for. More than a few analysts have noted that if an elector felt sorry for Hillary, that they could easily switch their vote in favor of Ms. Clinton.

"It's not over," remarked one Clinton aide, "and the battle is just beginning."

(excerpted)

32 posted on 04/18/2015 6:28:34 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I>she opened a long communications campaign not only to "rebrand" herself but to completely reframe who she is, what she stands for and how she intends to run.

Shouldn't a candidate for the presidency be who they are and stand for what they stood for? What's for the "re-framing" crap?

33 posted on 04/18/2015 6:29:02 PM PDT by okie01
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To: SeekAndFind

this is satire, correct?


34 posted on 04/18/2015 6:31:59 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: null and void

I thought Newsweek was dead, bankrupt; Time was on the way. These dinosaurs of the old media still shrilly shill for their causes, nothing like journalism or objectivity, won’t it be good when the old left “news” is yesterday’s news??


35 posted on 04/18/2015 6:36:26 PM PDT by laconic
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To: SeekAndFind
Brilliant? Hardly.....pathetic is the word that comes to mind.
36 posted on 04/18/2015 6:39:55 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: jocon307
But Cruz isn’t an RC, is he?

He is Southern Baptist. I think his early years were Catholic though.

37 posted on 04/18/2015 6:42:30 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them." GK Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

They didn’t earn its deserved nickname of the Clinton News Network for nothing.


38 posted on 04/18/2015 6:42:30 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t that the same thing Obama did?

Or Michael Dukakis?


39 posted on 04/18/2015 6:46:34 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SeekAndFind

As far as I’m concerned, CNN should be classified in the same category as Stormfront and not allowed on Free Republic. CNN is nothing more than a bunch of lying propagandists pushing communism and fascism and the destruction of America.

FDR didn’t allow the Nazis to set up a news bureau in America during WW II, nor should CNN be allowed a voice on FR.


40 posted on 04/18/2015 6:54:31 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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