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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:35 PM Feb 2016

Recording Suggests Hillary Clinton Backers Testing Attack Lines Ahead of Nevada Caucus

Days before Democratic voters will caucus in Nevada, the race in the state between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is tighter than ever. A new CNN poll out Wednesday showed the two candidates in a virtual dead heat in the state and staff from the Sanders campaign confirmed to ABC News that they have conducted their own polling in the state and are optimistic about what they see.

As the pressure builds ahead of the next contest in the primary fight, ABC News recently obtained an audio recording of what sounds like intensive message polling conducted on Clinton's behalf to a caller in the northern part of the state.

In the recording, provided to ABC News by the Sanders campaign, a woman's voice asks a man on the other end for, among other things, his impression of both talking points that are favorable to Clinton as well as a series of attack lines against the Vermont senator.

The Sanders campaign said the recording and that type of polling are evidence that the Clinton campaign is nervous about a state they once thought they had locked up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/recording-suggests-hillary-clinton-backers-testing-attack-lines/story?id=37027124

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Recording Suggests Hillary Clinton Backers Testing Attack Lines Ahead of Nevada Caucus (Original Post) IDemo Feb 2016 OP
Heck, we've seen that right here -- Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2016 #1
Sleazy, dishonest negative camp Hillary cali Feb 2016 #2
disgusting amborin Feb 2016 #3
Not much about her to vote FOR, so they have to go negative. Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #4
yep. Typical Clinton. She won't be President. Too nasty and divisive. Jackilope Feb 2016 #5
Repeat, Rinse. She did it in 2008 too benny05 Feb 2016 #6
Candidate counts caucus before it's hatched. Disgusting tactics follow. Karmadillo Feb 2016 #7
When candidates and their surrogates show themselves as they are enigmatic Feb 2016 #8
I'll give them a really useful question for their next push poll. pa28 Feb 2016 #9
BWAH! kath Feb 2016 #11
Clinton has nothing left except attacks Sanders Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #10
Artful smear research??? UglyGreed Feb 2016 #12
PUSH POLLING PLUTOCRATS! mhatrw Feb 2016 #13
 

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)
1. Heck, we've seen that right here --
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:55 PM
Feb 2016

Certain posters directly asking for help identifying anything negative about Bernie. Transparent as glass...

Qutzupalotl

(14,302 posts)
4. Not much about her to vote FOR, so they have to go negative.
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 08:26 PM
Feb 2016

It's a shame she can't say why her policies are better.

pa28

(6,145 posts)
9. I'll give them a really useful question for their next push poll.
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 08:57 PM
Feb 2016

They should try asking respondents why Clinton's divisive attacks keep backfiring.

 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
10. Clinton has nothing left except attacks Sanders
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:21 PM
Feb 2016

Foreign policy was supposed to be her strength but she got torn up over Iraq and Kissinger too. Now there is literally nothing left.

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