Clinton attacks produce windfall of campaign cash for Sanders

[Jefferson23]

Hillary Clinton’s new barrage against Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential primary opponent she has all but ignored through most of her campaign, is having an effect — though probably not the one she intended.

Sanders’s underdog campaign said it is seeing a surge of contributions as a direct result of the new attention it is getting from the Democratic front-runner, with money coming in at a clip nearly four times the average daily rate reported in the last quarter of 2015.

In its email appeals for money, the campaign accused the Clinton campaign of making “vicious and coordinated attacks” on Sanders’s health-care plan, which calls for a government-run system. Sanders’s strategists are also considering rolling out advertising beyond the early-contest states where it is airing spots now.

The former secretary of state and her team have stepped up their criticism of Sanders on a variety of fronts in recent days as polls have begun to show him edging even with her in Iowa — and, for the first time, looking competitive in a national poll. But the Clinton strategy may be backfiring in some ways.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-attacks-produce-windfall-of-campaign-cash-for-sanders/2016/01/13/d95b3d38-ba27-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html

[FlatBaroque]

1. EVERYTHING is going to backfire

She is unelectable and she probably knows it.

[Jefferson23]

2. I wouldn't go that far, she is definitely electable and she does know she

has more than a small chance at winning. The calculations she pursues
going forward may become riskier and riskier..the attacks on the idea
of single payer, the baseless attacks on Sanders position etc.

If she wins the primary, and simultaneously raises more doubts about having run
a fair campaign she could jeopardize voter turn out in the GE.

[Uncle Joe]

3. That's a good article, well worth the read.

Thanks for the thread, Jefferson.

[Jefferson23]

4. You're most welcome. n/t