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2016 Postmortem

nolabear

(41,986 posts) Fri Aug 19, 2016, 10:38 AM Aug 2016

Manafort's out! It's all media all the time now.

Everybody in his campaign is now media oriented and very good at manipulating information. No one has anything to do with actual substance, just appearance.

Remains to be seen how much wool they can pull.

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Manafort's out! It's all media all the time now. (Original Post) nolabear Aug 2016 OP

If it's close, the race will be run on the ground. piechartking Aug 2016 #1

The Real Campaign Managers of New York City, weeknights at 8 p.m. n/t Orsino Aug 2016 #2

LOL! It's like the Big Brother house. nolabear Aug 2016 #3

But they all keep getting voted off the island pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #4

piechartking

(617 posts)

1. If it's close, the race will be run on the ground.

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 AM

Aug 2016

No one focuses on data and ground game, I guess because it's not sexy. But with zero focus on the nuts and bolts (Seriously, are they that dumb?), they will get clobbered in the early vote and on Election Day.