OT: So What Could Hillary Clinton Have Done Differently?
san_jose_guy
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:56 PM
So right after the election, some were saying that the Democrat's were using a flawed model. They were saying that the demographics were going more in their direction, more ethnic, maybe more urban.
But in fact, there are other reasons that the working class was going against them. Does someone have the link to this?
Talk about Bill Clinton getting so mad with the campaign people that he finally threw his cell phone in a river.
So what could she have done differently? Better analysis so that she could spend more time in the critical states? That would have meant spending less time in other states.
Talked differently, but about what? Couldn't talk like Trump, he was the most extreme candidate the Republicans have ever offered. Nicki Hailey, Mitt Romney, and John McCain had all denounced him. Even more sensible conservative Republicans could not beat Trump in the primaries.
What could she have said which was different, to gain more of this white working class vote?
I think our nation suffers from a severe sickness.
Reading:
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Hochschild spent 5 years in the Lake Charles area of Louisiana, highly Red voters, Christian Evangelicals, who mostly turned into Trump supporters, because she wanted to understand the growing split between the Left and the Right, and especially the moderate income working class Right.
Interview:
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Earlier it had been Thomas Frank's, "What's The Matter With Kansas" which was supposed to explain it. But people find flaws in the analysis. So Arlie Hochschild is supposed to be able to explain the rise of the working people's Right.
SJG
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