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highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)
3. Nate Silver: "This sure seems like revisionist history from Donna Brazile."
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:38 PM
Nov 2017




Silver also pointed out, citing another Politico article from last year




that Brazile was apparently so confident Clinton would win in competitive states that she invested more DNC money (millions transferred from the Clinton campaign to the DNC) in noncompetitive states, urban areas, to drum up urban turnout and ensure Trump wouldn't win the popular vote. So Brazile had the DNC investing money "far from anywhere that would have made a difference in the election," according to Politico.
 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
5. I like Brazile. A very small segment of her upcoming book isn't going to cool me on that.
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:44 PM
Nov 2017

Ratfuckers are going to use her. It's what they do. Of course the right enjoys how those acting like they are a part of the left are using it. That is the only positive thing they have going for them.

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)
6. I've liked Brazile most of the time in the past, but the Politico excerpt from her book sounds off
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:11 PM
Nov 2017

to me. Sanctimonious and self-serving. She threw Hillary under the bus.

And in the current political climate, she has to have know that this was a huge chunk of red meat to offer Trump and the RW media to throw to the deplorables.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
8. It's not just huge red meat to offer RW media.
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:29 PM
Nov 2017

It's going to equate to a huge sum of cash in her bank account. <- I get that.

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)
10. I would otherwise wish her success with her book. But with this section of it, she even
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:42 PM
Nov 2017

has RWers dredging up that debunked story that Hillary threw an insane tantrum and called Brazile a "brain dead water buffalo." RWers are saying this is Brazile getting revenge for that. Like this Roseanne Barr tweet:


Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
9. Of course and since she has been basically shunned by liberal media...you could see why she did
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:31 PM
Nov 2017

what she did...very disappointed had respect for her.

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