#Trump again made a fool of himself telling a mostly empty stadium of white people at Temple University (with a few Black people behind the podium for marketing purposes) that he won Philadelphia last election.
But give him credit for going where he’s not wanted. I wish Democratic candidates went to rural towns, or even to suburban towns in Red States they have no hope of winning.
Reading "SHATTERED" opened my eyes; it was written by the wife-and-husband team her campaign contracted to "record the HRC march to victory" in 2016. That victory which eluded her?
Takeaways:
Robbie Mook really screwed up on resources-deployment;
HRC had a bloated campaign staff(!); she had a $1.2B budget and 800+ "paid national staff"
(Trump had $700M and >170 paid staff).
Sheer hubris blinded them.
@zenmudprod
Not sure the staff was unreasonable. She had literally one million volunteers who needed directions of which blocks to canvas. And it’s customary in Philadelphia, at least, as part of union support for a candidate, that some union “volunteers” are paid a few hours to make phone calls.
@zenmudprod
Still, Obama was much more savvy in use of resources — food was pot luck, not pizza orders, and the money was instead directed to providing T-shirts for volunteers, so they could be campaigning any time they wore them.
Our short-sighted, algorithm-driven presidential campaigns focus only on turning out the party faithful while using negative ads to make undecided people too disgusted to vote at all.
Hyper-polarization wasn’t the result of one election year, and it will take efforts over many years to get it under control.