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Hillary ran the worst presidential campaign ever
The New York Post ^ | April 18, 2017 | John Podhoretz

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)

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: democrats; hillary; polls; trump
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To: SpaceBar

I didn’t realize that Hillary was part of the original crew of the “Enterprise”.

CC


61 posted on 04/18/2017 11:23:11 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: boop

"...what campaign?..."


I am not in the business of advising Hillary Clinton how she could have connected with normal American people.
My hope is that our opposition continues to run candidates exactly like Hillary Clinton and conduct themselves identically.


62 posted on 04/18/2017 11:58:47 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: richardskeet

"...yet another backhanded attack on POTUS Trump..."


Exactly correct, richardskeet.
Hillary Clinton was "in it to win it" and was simply outclassed, outmaneuvered, and outsmarted by President Trump.


63 posted on 04/19/2017 12:06:24 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: TBP
Every one of the so called "republicans" other than Trump would have lost.

No strength, no fortitude, too many years of being afflicted with Stockholm Syndrome. None of them, not one, knew how to fight and overcome the media and the Clinton machine.

64 posted on 04/19/2017 12:10:37 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Be resolved to help!)
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To: Billthedrill

Those of us here who followed every Trump event recall vividly how Trump in the closing weeks, told he was double digits down, kept on digging, kept on campaigning, kept going to blue collar strong holds, took it right to the dems. On the other side, Clinton was sleeping, doing the Mitt Romney thing.


65 posted on 04/19/2017 1:42:13 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
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To: SpaceBar

She is such a skank.


66 posted on 04/19/2017 2:06:22 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary’s ineptness in running her campaign, which had a single goal, demonstrates how ineffective she would been as president having to deal with a multitude of goals. Hillary abilities have always been vastly overrated.


67 posted on 04/19/2017 2:50:52 AM PDT by monocle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She likely would’ve lost to the socialist non-Democrat Sanders, if not for the anti-democracy Superdelegates.

Primaries are used to filter out horrible candidates like Hillary and determine what the electorate wants.

So this arrogant, elitist DNC rule enabled the loss from the start.

Also a factor: Trump. He was the only GOP, other than maybe Cruz, that could beat her or Sanders. Yeb, Rubio, Carson... Loss.


68 posted on 04/19/2017 2:53:59 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The book “Shattered” was released yesterday so most of the attention of the past few days is to gin up book sales. The author’s previous work is not impressive imo.
Still, the more the merrier. I do enjoy a happy ending.
The comments (reviews) on the amazon page are fun too.


69 posted on 04/19/2017 3:31:50 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: canuck_conservative
The elephant in the room...is that Hillary just doesn’t like regular people.

Let's not forget the fly in the room. He beat her soundly in the second debate.

70 posted on 04/19/2017 3:41:55 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People voted for 0bama twice even knowing he was a lying slime ball. 0bama while winning the presidential election in both 2008 and 2012 he lost all for the Democrats. Why would any sane person the a lying old bat like Hillary would have a chance after the mess 0bama made?


71 posted on 04/19/2017 6:18:19 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People voted for 0bama twice even knowing he was a lying slime ball. 0bama while winning the presidential election in both 2008 and 2012 he lost all for the Democrats. Why would any sane person the a lying old bat like Hillary would have a chance after the mess 0bama made?


72 posted on 04/19/2017 6:20:06 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: TBP

[And yet people here insist that any Republican but Trump would have lost to her.]

Jeb would have gotten creamed.


73 posted on 04/19/2017 6:30:45 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So Hillary's campaign didn't want to spend money on old school polling. But it sure spent a lot of money on incessant ads on TV. I couldn't watch TV without my hand on the remote to mute her ads which played every few minutes.
74 posted on 04/19/2017 7:15:32 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Fai Mao
Re: I don’t know I think John McCain ran a worse campaign that The PIAPS.

I agree. But then, for McCain it was a win-win situation. He sides with the Democrats on almost everything anyway. So by running a no offense campaign and firing everyone on his staff who attempted to actually win the presidency for the Republicans, he was a “winner” in the end.

75 posted on 04/19/2017 7:24:21 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: catnipman

Thank you.


76 posted on 04/19/2017 7:34:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: bobby.223

I opened a bottle of champagne and drank a bunch before going to the front porch and screaming woohoooooo just after midnight here in our suburban neighborhood! At my age the thought of heading into my twilight years with that beotch in charge so depressed me. Now, We’ve been given another chance...


77 posted on 04/19/2017 7:41:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary’s hubris that she was the anointed candidate was her undoing in 2008 should have been evident when an obscure junior Senator from Illinois trounced her in the primaries and sewed up the nomination. In 2016 she again assumed the nomination, but was repeatedly upstaged by a doddering white haired socialist and had to resort to dirty tricks with the DNC to secure her nomination. Hillary’s campaign failed to gain any enthusiasm and her bizzare likely medical related behavior including a total collapse in September certainly turned off voters. Her message was the same old we are going to fight for..fill in the blank with the minority or special interest group...was shopworn and did not address the concern of real voters. Had Hillary won the nomination in 2008, McCane could well have been president.


78 posted on 04/19/2017 8:55:23 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: SpaceBar
Kim Jong Hill is more a handsome feller than an attractive woman...


79 posted on 04/19/2017 9:12:51 AM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: Fai Mao
I don’t know I think John McCain ran a worse campaign that The PIAPS.

McCain should have beaten The Obamanation of Desolation.

I do not think McCain nor the GOPe intended to win.

They knew that Obama was an un-American, anti-American Communist and wanted him to win so as to turn our Country into a third-world crap hole. They wanted power and riches and wanted to have someone else to blame.

80 posted on 04/19/2017 10:14:12 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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