#HillaryMen: How to Stay Calm and Confident in the Turbulence of Hillary's Campaign (HILLARY GROUP)
1. Every National Campaign Is a Challenge
A national political campaign is a risky and complex undertaking involving the creation of an ad hoc entity tasked with mobilizing millions of people across the country and scaling that entity from scratch to become a billion dollar organization in a matter of months.
Campaigns exist and function in a turbulent atmosphere. Reporters, pundits, columnists, commentators, politicians and political operatives unleash a stream of opinion and conjecture designed to frame the national debate. Pollsters flood the airwaves with imperfect and often misleading numbers. Research groups employ sophisticated techniques to manipulate public opinion. Voters struggle to make sense of it all, forming views based more on instinct and intuition than on facts and figures.
The advent of digital communication has further complicated the process. More voices, more speed, more immediacy, more noise, more uncertainty, more emotion, more confusion.
In this jumble, strategists look for clarity, for paths to victory. Ultimately, only one candidate and one team will prevail. It is invariably a tumultuous journey. Even in a data-driven age, where predictive analytics can divine the proclivities of individual voters down to their choice of beverage, running a campaign is a process of guessing, adapting, taking chances, hoping and praying.
For American women, successfully navigating a presidential campaign to its conclusion has thus far been an insurmountable challenge.
Hillary Clinton is essentially attempting to achieve the heretofore impossible. No female has ever overcome the institutional gender barriers barring women from the U.S. presidency.
2. The Gender Obstacle Is Very Real
Since the official launch of Hillary's campaign, we have chronicled her quest, adopting a robust stance in support of her candidacy. We do this for our daughters and in solidarity with women and girls across the globe whose never-ending oppression is a monumental travesty of human life....
MUCH more at: http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/staying-calm-in-campaign-turbulence?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork via #HillaryMen (Tom Watson and Peter Daou)
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