Why Hillary's Rollout Worked – and Why It Won't Last

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The first time Bret Nilles met Hillary Clinton was in November 2007 following a major energy policy speech she delivered inside a vast wind turbine plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

After listening to her address 350 supporters, the local Democratic Party chairman was whisked into a private room with a dozen others for a quick handshake and photo. He remembers the encounter as friendly, but a bit of a whirlwind and markedly brief.

Eight years later, his meeting with Clinton as she embarks on a second presidential campaign couldn’t have been more different.

On Tuesday afternoon, he sat down with eight others inside a coffee shop in Mount Vernon, Iowa, to chat with Clinton privately and out of the media glare for 75 minutes. She was accompanied by just two aides – Matt Paul, her Iowa campaign director, and confidante Huma Abedin – and she lingered afterward for an additional 15 minutes without any indication she had somewhere else to be.


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Even Republicans conceded Clinton pulled off her launch swimmingly. GOP consultant John Weaver, who worked on presidential bids by Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, called it “tactically effective.”



http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/17/why-hillary-clintons-campaign-rollout-worked

[MineralMan]

1. This phase of Hillary Clinton's campaign will last only

until others declare their candidacy and there is competition for the Democratic nomination. Once the primary campaign gets underway, her campaign will change. Until then, though, she'll do herself a lot of good with this small, informal group approach. She's scaling her campaign up slowly because there's no need yet to go into full-out campaign mode yet. She has a massive lead in early primary polling, so she can afford to use this low-key people-oriented approach right now.

Much has been learned by her team since 2007-8. Watch and you'll see how much over the next few months.

[sufrommich]

2. I agree.I also think she's got a smart team

who know enough to be wary of overexposure this early in the game.

[snooper2]

3. how long will she be able to keep up the act that she is "new" to this LOL

[sufrommich]

4. I haven't seen any indication that she's

trying to "act new" to this.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. You forgot the obligatory LOL./NT

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Until it ceases to be effective and she moves on to the next phase of her campaign LOL

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. FOX hates her rollout which means, of course, they know know it's working./NT