Posted on 04/18/2017 9:02:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So guess what? In the last weeks before the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign did no polling. No. Polling. Whatsoever. Oh, it had data. Lots and lots of data. Analytics, even. Data analytics! But it had no independent information on the overall field of battle in states like Florida, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
So when the election began to turn Donald Trump’s way, the Clinton campaign had no idea.
This is one of the thousand revelations in “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes that, for political junkies, redefines the word “juicy” for our time.
Campaign honcho Robby Mook “was worried about overspending . . . so he declined to use pollsters to track voter preferences in the final three weeks of the campaign.” Mook had learned from his time on the Obama 2012 campaign, Allen and Parnes write, that “old-school polling should be used for testing messages and gauging the sentiments of the electorate and that analytics were just as good for tracking which candidate was ahead and by how much in each state.”
Guess not.
Allen and Parnes report that the Republican National Committee did know — but just couldn’t accept it. The RNC didn’t brief reporters on early November polling data it had developed in Michigan and Pennsylvania, “because the upticks there were so rosy that party officials didn’t believe their own data.”(continued)
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I don’t know I think John McCain ran a worse campaign that The PIAPS.
McCain should have beaten The Obamanation of Desolation.
Lincoln couldn’t have beaten Obama that year.
other than 2012, thanks to Romney “obama care blueprint”, Obamas been a political disaster..i mean this guy actually helped lose Ted Kennedys seat in Mass!!...i dont rememeber a single special election he helped win.
I’ll bet they were as thick as flies on a dead possum at the 801 Grand Steak & Chop House.
http://801chophouse.com/des-moines/menu/
I don’t think that’s true.
A couple of other Republicans were at least as tough on illegal immigration.
Many Democrats refused to get in the race because they calculated that it was a Republican year.
Who, amongst the other primary candidates had a following, who would have crawled over broken glass, through fire, and a hail of live bullets to vote for them and also drag everyone they knew to vote for them too, b y one means or another? And before you say Cruz, let me disabuse you of that idiocy.
I say she tied with McLame.
Lincoln couldn’t have beaten Obama that year.
Agree. Bush fatigue plus market collapse plus “historic” race element equaled a 2008 Obama slam dunk against any GOP candidate.
EXXXactly.
HRC was a sloth. Her behavior was an insult to the term “campaign”.
What the talking heads don`t get is that the Hillary team viewed the actual campaign as unimportant. They were confident that the fix was in. All they really needed during the campaign was for the media to continue rolling out fake polls, and reinforcing the idea that she was way ahead. The fraud would take care of the rest. Her actual support was always viewed as irrelevant.
She and her team didn`t count on Trump receiving help from a small group of patriots within the goverment who helped him counter enough of the fraud to prevent her from stealing the election..
It's an absolute miracle that Trump won. Providential, even.
The fact is, Hillary didn't have to run a great campaign. The Establishment and Media (but I repeat myself) did that for her. Collectively, they effectively outspent the Trump campaign 3- or 4- to 1.
Donald Trump beat the entire f-----g slimeball Establishment—Democrat and Republican—and he only spent about one third of the money that they did!
This "Hillary ran the worst Presidential campaign ever" tripe is just another attempt to minimize the magnitude of Donald Trump's incredible achievement. The American People watched. They saw. They know what the Media tried to do. And they're never going back to the way things used to be. The Media—like never before—was exposed as the Enemy of the People.
Good. Let the Democrats think that it was all about Hillary's weak candidacy. This means that policy-wise and attitude-wise, the Democrats are likely to repeat their mistakes once again—class warfare, race-baiting, identity politics, hysterically false accusations of bigotry and fascism—and achieve the same results.
Make no mistake: in his own way, Donald Trump ran an overall great campaign, considering the fact that the entire Establishment tried to tear him down at every opportunity, and also considering the fact that he spoke so bluntly, unlike any modern politician, and that he had things like the "Access Hollywood" tape to overcome, as well as several other gaffes.
Those challenges and setbacks would have destroyed any other candidate, but Donald Trump "fought the good fight" (not the "perfect" fight) and was rewarded for his tireless work and passionate message.
None of the Democrat excuses will ever dim the brilliance of the victory which the American People achieved on November 8, 2016 by electing Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
The world will never be the same, and that is a good thing.
Having given all the credit to Donald J. Trump that he deserves, I still declare that I've never in my life been more convinced that the hand of Providence was involved in guiding the affairs of Men and of the USA...
They considered Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in the bag for them. Her campaign invested little time or money in those states. They did not even do much internal polling. They concentrated on the the swing states. They never knew that Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were swing states.
Florida was a swing state and her campaign invested much in that state. When Florida was called for Trump, I knew she was doomed even before Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were called for Trump.
The elephant in the room, which the Failing NY Times and Big Media will never admit to, is that Hillary just doesn’t like regular people.
She did almost no campaigning in August, then only a few select rallies in September, including several closed events for her big donors.
Even today, we have yet to see Hillary among a group of strangers. Every one of her “meetings” is carefully staged.
That avoidance-of-the-average-person behavior comes off as either aloof & uncaring or contemptuous. For a politician, that’s fatal. Even Bill Clinton never behaved that way.
Election Night - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc
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