Campaign Strategy for Hillary

~ Clarissa

I hope this is not true, and Hillary’s campaign doesn’t really plan on using this dumbass strategy against Trump:

The emerging approach to defining Trump is an updated iteration of the “Bain Strategy” — the Obama 2012 campaign’s devastating attacks on Mitt Romney’s dealings with investment firm Bain Capital, according to a dozen Democratic operatives and campaign aides familiar with the accelerating planning inside Clinton’s orbit. This time, Democrats would highlight the impact of Trump’s four business bankruptcies — and his opposition to wage hikes at his casinos and residential properties — on the families of his workers.

First of all, I followed the 2012 election very closely but have retained no memory of even the words “Bain Capital.” Devastating that shit was not. Romney tanked his own campaign by being a completely wooden and tone-deaf individual with zero charisma. And, of course, making a very poor Veep choice.

Be that as it may, the strategy against Trump is plainly stupid. The fellow is a bona fide billionaire. Past bankruptcies only make him more attractive. People dig stories of redemption, of coming back from failure, of overcoming hardship. Feeding that mythology is simply counterproductive.

As for “the impact on the workers’ families”, who is this strategy trying to convince not to vote for Trump? Bleeding heart Liberals? Do Trump’s supporters really look like people who’ll suddenly exclaim, “Oh God, the worker’s families! How they must have suffered! I would have never supported Trump had I known”?

This is all very ridiculous. You can’t project yourself onto people and talk to yourself while staring at them. If the were like you, they’d be voting for the same candidate already.

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  1. Apparently this kind of attack has been tested in focus groups, and found to be effective:

    A] senior Koch official … shared for the first time focus group research the network had commissioned showing that Trump’s popularity falls when voters are shown how working people have suffered as a result of his bankruptcies and business dealings in Atlantic City. Stories of ordinary people’s livelihoods being harmed as Trump tried to enrich himself at their expense are most effective in “moving the needle” against Trump, donors were told.

    http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/02/independent-journamalism.html

    Also, they didn’t have to mention Bain Capital when they ran the famous ad of Romney singing America the Beautiful, enhancing it with some special audio effects on it as well.

    And while many Americans hate negative ads, a new project by Vanderbilt University and research firm YouGov shows them to be highly effective—at least for the Obama campaign.

    The “Ad Rating Project,” which measures measure voter reaction to negative ads by asking people how each ad makes them feel, how believable or memorable or fair it is, and whether they think the ads are negative or positive, found that independent voters are deeply affected by the Obama campaign’s negative ads about Romney.

    After showing independent voters the negative ad of Romney singing “America the Beautiful” off-key, for example, approval of Romney by those voters fell sharply from 16 points to 3 points. Obama’s numbers, on the other hand, barely moved after independents watched a negative ad about the president.

    “People have made up their minds about Obama,” John Geer, political science professor at Vanderbilt and head of the project, told Whispers. “Whereas Obama’s ads have extracted a price for Romney. They are what’s moving the dial for the Obama camp. And the Obama campaign knows that.”

    When surveyed, half of independents also said they were “disgusted” by the “America the Beautiful” ad, and the majority didn’t like it. But a voter’s approval of an ad is not necessarily a measure of its success, the Ad Rating Project’s results show.

    “Negative ads disgust people, but they may also remember them more,” says Geer, noting that 43 percent of independents found the “America the Beautiful” ad memorable. “The presumption is that these ads undermine the political process…but we need to know the bad sides of candidates. We need to let the public in instead of just letting the talking heads talk about them.”

    http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/07/23/obama-ad-showing-romney-singing-off-key-proves-effective-with-independent-voters-

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    1. Yes, I heard they are taking this great insight from Koch brothers. The same Koch brothers whose own candidate tanked back in September. That is such a brilliant strategy.

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