2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Clinton Campaign Will Fight You On Twitter, Now THAT’S how you win an election.
"It has been said about many of Sanders initiatives that the money doesnt add up. The Clinton campaign, though, will spend donor cash to push back on your Instagram feed, an airtight model of sensible and sustainable campaign spending that absolutely constitutes the best use of a million dollars.
It is reasonable to attribute this to the Clinton campaign, by the way. As Sunlight Foundation campaign-finance sorceress extraordinaire Libby Watson explains to Collins, loopholes in Federal Election Commission regulations allow Correct The Record to openly coordinate with Clintons campaign, despite rules that typically disallow political campaigns from working directly with PACs. (Although to be honest, we would have attributed any activity of Clinton-affiliated PACs and super PACs to the Clinton campaign, because Eat The Press official editorial position is that candidates are always coordinating with these entities.)
This initiative will also attempt to combat online harassment, a genuinely noble goal that more social media platforms should undertake on their users behalf. The goal gets a little less noble, however, when your working definition of harassment is simply being at variance from a specific politicians electoral endeavors."
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/hillary-clinton-twitter-fight_us_571a413ee4b0d912d5fe5638
I still think Bernie will win but if it's Hillary, so be it. History will not be kind to the tactics tho. Look at what's already coming out.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Plan A is openly insulting them.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)nope
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)This shows how much the Clinton camp is bothered by the organic, authentic, smart and enthusiastic supporters that Bernie has--that the Clinton camp can't quite seem to amass.
They are envious. So their answer is to pay people to shill so they can be on par with the Sanders campaign. But everyone knows they're shills. And the Clinton shills are unpleasant dullards.
All they do is muck up the works and make everyone outside of the Hillary bubble despise her. In effect, Clinton is paying people who are destroying her brand and creating a large demographic of Hillary haters who will never vote for her.
Dumbasses.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I'm a long time I/P dungeon poster and I'm what is called Pro-Palestinian, most of these campaign tactics shadow the Israeli governments Hasbara propaganda programs and indeed techniques - there's a reason I've referred to it as Hilsbara
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts)Tone deaf and out of touch...
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Nanjeanne
(4,940 posts)It's just finally I had hope this time could be different.