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Ed Klein: The Myth of Hillary's Ground Game
News Max ^ | September 20, 2016 | Ed Klein

Posted on 09/22/2016 2:38:02 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

Faced with this terrifying prospect, Democrats try to console themselves with the mantra that Hillary has a better ground game — polling data and grassroots organization — than Donald.

But ED KLEIN CONFIDENTIAL recently discovered that this mantra is a myth.

We spoke to an election expert who has visited many of Hillary's campaign offices, where he interviewed staffers and found that the Clinton operation is "chaotic."

"There are too many people giving orders and a lot of the effort is at cross purposes," the expert told us. "Hillary often goes around [campaign manager Robby] Mook and other top people and starts an operation on her own. Chelsea interferes regularly, giving orders, even firing people. Huma [Abedin] also deliberately interferes with the operation.

"Bill and his people pay no attention to Brooklyn [campaign headquarters], write their own speeches, schedule travel completely without regard to the campaign organization," the expert continued. "Bill contradicts his wife and says things that can't be undone. Like his saying on the Charlie Rose show that she ‘frequently' faints.

"With so many people working at such cross purpose there are often fights, loud shouting matches, with someone storming out and leaving those remaining to try to figure out what that person was working on. There have even been fist fights, and I understand that law suits have been threatened, if not yet actually filed.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; edklein; elections; hillary; hillarycampaign; hillarygroundgame
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To: COUNTrecount
Everything I read about the Hillary campaign has me thinking about the line from Hamlet:

“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

21 posted on 09/22/2016 3:25:07 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Cecily

Holy Sh%T!!!! Vince McMahon and his WWE gang could take lessons from this big azz creature on the fine art of table tossin’! I wonder how she does with metal chairs.....


22 posted on 09/22/2016 3:26:50 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Good times. :-)


23 posted on 09/22/2016 3:29:16 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: COUNTrecount

hee hee.... the wheels are coming off the bus


24 posted on 09/22/2016 3:31:22 PM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: COUNTrecount

Ground game is only useful with undecideds and soft voters. You’re trying to persuade them to show up. It’s useless for persuading those who have already made up their mind. It’s also very expensive to hire people to walk and knock on doors, so your ability to deliver a ground game is limited in part by your ability to get people to volunteer. Simply put, you can’t knock on all the doors that need knocking without a lot of volunteers or a lot of money or both.

I’ve not seen much a ground game by the rats in truth. maybe they’re gearing it up, but if they are its been low profile.


25 posted on 09/22/2016 3:31:25 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Make phone calls. Knock on doors. Write letters. Or wake to a nightmare in November)
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To: MplsSteve

Doubt it. doesn’t help her in any way: voters don’t want a leader who can’t lead her own election team.


26 posted on 09/22/2016 3:35:03 PM 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: COUNTrecount

Trump needs to hold his first NY rally in front of Clinton’s Brooklyn Headquarters.

Have signs that say “Trump, the only NY’er in the race.”


27 posted on 09/22/2016 3:42:45 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump will win New York.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I have a tip for those Hillary staffers if they want to get along with everyone.

Follow the Kaine lead on the Hillary book cover and give the Seig Heil salute to everyone you meet.


28 posted on 09/22/2016 3:54:52 PM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Local Philly news tonight about Trump in Pennsylvania reports that his organization has thousands of volunteers ready to canvas the Philadelphia suburbs this weekend to push the vote - maybe they can bring back to the right side some of the smug suburbanite Republicans who went ‘rat in the past few elections to show how oh so wonderful they were in voting for the first black president.....


29 posted on 09/22/2016 4:20:24 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: bobby.223

Never looses her purse either. Mighty Joe Young in drag?


30 posted on 09/22/2016 4:32:14 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: COUNTrecount

“There are too many people giving orders and a lot of the effort is at cross purposes,”


That pretty much sums up any Democrat run organization.


31 posted on 09/22/2016 4:40:33 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Oratam

How about Macbeth: “ Turn hellhound, turn!”


32 posted on 09/22/2016 4:53:02 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MUDDOG
There have even been fist fights


33 posted on 09/22/2016 7:29:23 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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