Posted on 06/29/2018 1:29:37 PM PDT by simpson96
Hillary Clinton did a "miserable" job of reaching out to white evangelical voters in the 2016 presidential election, so the next Democratic nominee needs to "be better" in 2020, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton said recently.
Matthew Bennett, founder of the Third Way think tank that sees itself as a champion of "modern center-left ideas," shared his views in Washington last weekend at the Michael Cromartie Forum, hosted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Christian Post reported.
Exit polls indicated that Hillary Clinton captured just 16 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016, compared to Barack Obama's 21 percent in 2012 and 24 percent in 2008, the report noted.
In Bennett's view, Democrats erred in trying to craft different messages for different constituencies, rather than "craft a narrative that can be broadly useful" with all voters.
"When I worked for Bill Clinton," Bennett said, "he would say everywhere, 'If you work hard and play by the rules, you should get a fair shake.' He would say that every single place he went, no matter what he was doing.
"Hillary said a different thing in every place she went and she was nuanced and she was sophisticated and it was a disaster."
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How sad. I didn’t know that. I don’t know your name, Darius. Are you new? (That’s not meant to be provocative!)
The whole notion that a candidate requires outreach to any group means the core message does not resonate so special pleading must take place. When President Trump went to that black church in Detroit, he wasn’t doing outreach, he was bringing his core message with a few extra tailored lines just like he did in speaking to farmers, southerners, northerners, etc. People claimed it was outreach, but not to him. He was just going where he could speak to a group of voters. That doesn’t mean he didn’t understand the import of the group he was speaking to and where he was doing it. What you didn’t hear, though, was him breaking into a rap or claiming he was “nowars tard.”
We have tussled before I believe, you and me. But that’s ok. That’s what we do here ; )
Uh oh! I’ve tussled with everyone here (which happens to all of us who have been here for many years). Oh, well. Good post.
Evangelicals? Heck, she didn’t reach out to anybody. She and Billy were told the fix was in and that the Deep State had the election in the bag for them.
I've been told by an 'informed official source' that it was unicorn droppings.
Although she said she taught Sunday School one time. Doesn’t that qualfy her? Heh, heh.
They weren’t evangelicals.
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