Posted on 09/23/2016 9:49:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Hillary Clinton long planned to activate the vaunted Obama coalition to help carry her to the White House. But a rough month on the trail has exposed a big challenge — the Obama coalition belongs to Barack Obama.
Clinton’s struggle to win over Obama’s supporters — most notably young voters — has served as a reminder that many of them are more loyal to him than to his Democratic Party. Republican Donald Trump’s recent rise in the polls helps demonstrate that Obama’s two victories were more about one man in the right moment than any political realignment.
Rather than showing a formula for winning the White House for years come, as many Democrats hoped, Obama’s coalition may fail to outlast his own presidency. If that happens, Obama — long known for his dislike of party politics — will share some of the blame. …
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Good!
Just seeing her name in print these days makes me think the unholiest of thoughts.
I still consider the 2008 primary campaign to be the biggest red flag in Hillary Clinton's political career. If this woman was even remotely cut out to serve as president of the United States, she never would have lost to some jug-eared exchange student from Kenya.
Clinton's vulnerabilities have become glaring. Obama won two-thirds of young voters in 2009, and 60 percent in 2012, according to exit polls. But recent polls have found Clinton is not only shy of Obama's mark but also well behind John Kerry's level of support with young voters when he lost in 2004.
Polling worse than Lurch's 2004 numbers in ANY age/demographic group can't be good for any Democrat.
We have been saying that for months on FR.
Because grandma handing out lectures to wayward voters is always a good look for a winning presidential candidate.
She needs to paint her face black, not just talk black.
Wow. The Asspress bootlickers bemoaning that the hag can’t get close enough to cheat like Obama did. Some coalition. He got the hell beat out of him in the Congressionals. Shame we have to vote for the invertebrate Republicans.
Nope; those are vertebrates, albeit limbless and with venom glands.
Hillary is NOT Obama.
A point Democrats have overlooked for the past eight years.
The qualities that made Obama an electable candidate are missing in Hillary Clinton.
She lost out to him eight years ago.
Just like Mitt lost to the man then on the GOP ballot and he himself went down to defeat four years later.
We’re told Hillary is the candidate would capture the imagination of the country. Turns out that appears to be Donald Trump.
There are plenty of reasons Hillary won’t win but they all boil down to the fact she ain’t the Magic Negro.
Hillary struggles to wipe her own bottom with a plastic stick.
It’s incredible she’s actually a candidate, but Obama set the bar just about on the ground.
Obama may be popular but the month has illustrated it isn’t transferable to Hillary.
Democrats are coming out to see him - not her. Therein lies Hillary’s problem.
Hillary can’t capture what made people so enthusiastic about Obama.
People are just not into her.
Apparently everyone on earth except Hillary Clinton knew that it was a personality cult instead of a mass demand for corrupt democrat party governance.
desperate old hag hanging on
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