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Hillary Clinton needs to do these 3 things right now to save her campaign
CNBC ^ | September 19, 2016 | Jake Novak

Posted on 09/19/2016 10:46:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

With the polls continuing to show a decided trend in Donald Trump's favor, it's time for Hillary Clinton and her campaign to make some serious changes. There are probably 100 things a candidate who was once seen as a shoo-in winner needs to change once the tide turns, but let's get right to the three top priority musts:

1) Accept the facts

The biggest danger now for the Clinton team and her key backers is to brush off the polls as statistical noise or just a very brief trend that will flame out. The reason brushing off the polls is the biggest danger is because Clinton indeed does need to make serious changes that are much less likely to happen if her advisers believe she's going to win no matter what. Right now, there are still way too many Clinton supporters laughing at the mere suggestion she might lose. There are also a lot of Clinton team members who believe Trump's popular vote poll surge is partially real, but they're not convinced she can lose the Electoral College. Someone in the Clinton campaign needs to put the real fear of God into her staff and get them to act like she's truly behind now, because there's a really good chance she really is.

2) Get out in the streets

I've been advising both candidates to stop campaigning solely at rallies and on Twitter for months. Trump's momentum seemed to have changed for the better as soon as he did just that and visited the flood-ravaged areas of Louisiana and met the President of Mexico....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: democrats; hillary; polls; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Get out in the streets”

Yes, let’s try that...


41 posted on 09/19/2016 11:01:59 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Snickering Hound

Omg, that photo of Bernie. It looks like he is in a bathroom stall, trying to coax little Bern to make pee pee.


42 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:48 AM PDT by Yaelle (If you like Hillary, you are not allowed to dislike Bernie Madoff.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
-- Flailing. --

Needlessly. If I'm not mistaken, all the "offically endorsed" polls show her with a lead. Headlines only (lazy, not linking) ...

Clinton maintains lead in Pennsylvania, new poll finds - LA Times
Clinton maintains slim edge in national poll - Politico
Hillary Clinton has a 74% chance of winning the presidency. - NYT
CNN Poll of Polls: Clinton leads Trump by 2 points - CNNPolitics.com

Someone in the Clinton campaign needs to put the real fear of God into her staff and get them to act like she's truly behind now, because there's a really good chance she really is.

Not believing your own propaganda? Careful, others may notice your doubt and think you have been lying all along.

43 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:50 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Meet the New Boss
2. Triple her Parkinson’s medication

Would that make her Super-Rage Hillary, or Sleepy-Grandma Hillary?

Either one would be better.

44 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:54 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the first item didn’t start with “time travel back to...” I knew the list was bogus.


45 posted on 09/19/2016 11:03:31 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Hillary will NAIL the debate. She wears an ear piece every time she speaks now, and she is getting good at it.


46 posted on 09/19/2016 11:03:52 AM PDT by Yaelle (If you like Hillary, you are not allowed to dislike Bernie Madoff.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ya left out the best one!

“3) Give Trump a hug... really!”

Which was to wit: lighten up and respect your opponent.


47 posted on 09/19/2016 11:05:24 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: maro; Voluntaryist

If hugged by Hillary, Donald should immediately pull out his smartphone, call his doctor and report that he was just hugged by someone with pneumonia.


48 posted on 09/19/2016 11:05:32 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V):)
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To: eaglestar
When the people see her, they turn and run the other way, arms flailing, yelling, ‘Hilda beast coming, get out of the way’!!!
49 posted on 09/19/2016 11:06:01 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Centering your text.
Ruins the flow of the thread.
Even with haiku.

50 posted on 09/19/2016 11:06:13 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

4) Stop being the most corrupt politician in the history of the world.
5) Stop being arrogant and unlikable.
6) Stop pushing your anti-science, pro-totalitarianism, extreme leftist civilian disarmament agenda.
7) Go back in time an have had any accomplishment whatsoever as a politician.
8) Stop saying that the American people can’t be trusted to decide anything for themselves, so government has to decide for them, and apply the solution at the point of a gun.
9) Cut it out with the Keynesian economics already. They didn’t work for FDR they didn’t work for Obama.
10)Stop revering people who dedicate books to Lucifer.

There are probably some more that I am missing.


51 posted on 09/19/2016 11:06:26 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She needs to rally her most faithful constituency.

52 posted on 09/19/2016 11:07:59 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

53 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:05 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Blue Jays

But Centering text
Was half of all the coding
that I’ll ever know


54 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:17 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My 3 for HRC:

1. More caffeine
2. No more collapses in public
3. No more ugly pant suits

She has a shot at number one.


55 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:55 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: Rinnwald

Kitty photos are always well-received.


56 posted on 09/19/2016 11:10:39 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So...

1) Accept the facts

She may accept the facts, but hasn’t the time to act on them. People are making up their minds now (if they haven’t long ago), and there’s little room to change what’s already out there.

2) Get out in the streets

Well, ya see, that’s part of the problem. She can’t. Physically can’t hack spending any time in the streets. ...this while her opponent has been spotted evading violent protestors by jumping fences & running thru dirt roads/forests, while she can’t even seem to stand behind a podium without being drugged up and whisked away ASAP.

3) Give Trump a hug... really!

Trump is _very_ good at handling faux affection & friendliness. She’s said so much bad about him for so long nobody will believe it is anything more than another cheap & lame act.

I’d tell her to give up already, but would rather see her fight to the finish and get soundly trounced.


57 posted on 09/19/2016 11:11:03 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump campaign must sprint *past* the goal line — no dropping the football at the 5-yard mark.


58 posted on 09/19/2016 11:12:49 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too late. Cant’ close the barn door after the ship sails.


59 posted on 09/19/2016 11:14:41 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
2) Get out in the streets

She almost did this, but her Secret Service escorts caught her in time.

60 posted on 09/19/2016 11:15:00 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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