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How lamestream organizations are killing themselves.  They publish crap like this.   Its great for a laugh in hindsight.  It was posted on Nov 8.

http://time.com/4561386/hillary-clinton-campaign/

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Re: Time Mag article good for a laugh: How Hillary will win the election
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2016, 02:12:47 PM »
Sorry richb - I gave it almost a minute for the page to load. It displayed a photoshopped image o f Hellery and the site logo but no text.

As much as I like to indulge in schadenfreude life is too short for crappy web pages!

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Re: Time Mag article good for a laugh: How Hillary will win the election
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2016, 02:40:15 PM »
Page works for me.  Don't know what would be wrong with it.

I will do a few quotes for those the page doesn't work.

Will start with the "author".  They don't even bother covering she is a Clinton operative. 


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"Buffy Wicks, a Democratic strategist, worked for both Obama presidential campaigns and his administration and was Hillary Clinton's California State Director during the 2016 primary."


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She starts out with the laughable idea that Clinton campaign is "grassroots".  It isn't anything but if you keep reading.

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"In the midst of what has been one of the most bizarre election cycles in modern history, it’s easy to get caught up in the noise and chaos. But let’s take a second to look at what really matters: the ground game, which is Hillary Clinton’s critical advantage over Donald Trump. Clinton has created a robust, focused and deliberate grassroots operation with a laser-like focus on early vote and a diverse coalition of the willing that will get her to 270 electoral votes and beyond."

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none of this is remotely "grassroots".  At least defined in the dictionary.


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"This past weekend, the Clinton campaign on knocked on 6.2 million doors and made 8.1 million phone calls. At the national call center in San Francisco, volunteer lines funneled down three flights of stairs to get into phone bank and many offices around the country experienced a negative flake rate, meaning more people showed up than were scheduled.

Second, the Clinton campaign has a laser-like focus on early vote, which is critical for battleground states. In some states—including North Carolina and Colorado—half of the electorate has already voted. Early voting gives a huge advantage to campaigns who have the ability to “chase ballots”—organizing and deploying an army of volunteers to call and knock on doors of a list of supporters and ask them to return their ballot. It works. For every ballot that gets off the kitchen counter and into the mailbox, that vote is removed from the list the next day and over time, the list shrinks smaller."

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There may have been excitement in San Francisco,  but there wasn't much anywhere else.   If people were voting early,  it didn't help hillary all that much.  I wonder how many of those calls got people to vote for Trump instead of Hillary. 

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"Finally, the “Obama Coalition” is quickly evolving into the Clinton coalition. Clinton’s pathway is built on the same foundation of women, young people, African Americans and Latinos but with even stronger support and turnout by those critical groups of voters. I know this coalition well—I ran these programs for President Obama in 2012, and what the Clinton campaign has done to engage these groups is nothing short of breathtaking."

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This one is a whopper.   That same so called foundation had little support from the Obama coalition.   The few Demo voters I know had no real love for Hillary.  Some were only voting for her to keep Trump out.   The comedian on SNL said it best  that few cared about a 70 year old white woman. 


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Re: Time Mag article good for a laugh: How Hillary will win the election
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2016, 03:30:38 PM »
Thanks richB! So "grassroots" is what we're calling the rioters now? LOL

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Re: Time Mag article good for a laugh: How Hillary will win the election
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2016, 08:33:14 PM »
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In the postscript of this election cycle, I hope the analysts and pundits recognize this campaign for what it truly is—a historic achievement of grassroots mobilization in a time of unparalleled political polarization.

Too bad the grassroots went the other way. ::hysterical::
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Re: Time Mag article good for a laugh: How Hillary will win the election
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2016, 06:23:14 PM »
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In the postscript of this election cycle, I hope the analysts and pundits recognize this campaign for what it truly is—a historic achievement of grassroots mobilization in a time of unparalleled political polarization.

Too bad the grassroots went the other way. ::hysterical::

Yeah,  isn't that a hoot?!!?!