2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI think Hillary needs to let Trump ruin himself and concentrate on a positive agenda
Just struck me wrong - the clips today of a rally with all the "Love Trumps Hate" signs juxtaposed with Trump bashing.
Trump is the best one at Anti-Trump
Keep the good ads of his own crazy words and start concentrating on
what they say the undecideds want - a clear positive message of issues
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Anti-Trump + positive Experience/Agenda HRC
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Donald has everyone else calling him MR Trump, as though he's grown.
underpants
(182,631 posts)Also one mention of his father appears to send him off.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)avebury
(10,951 posts)say Please Proceed.
Everyone who watched the famous debate with President Obama and Romney will immediately recognize it as code for "Hey folks, he is really getting ready to go over the rails."
Stellar
(5,644 posts)and that's how he gets himself into trouble.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)ineptitude (or maybe the shock) of the people who ran against him. Hopefully that pool of people is finite.
underpants
(182,631 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 1, 2016, 10:14 AM - Edit history (1)
Positive positive positive
Trump can't help himself so don't worry about him. Let him flail around.
The scone debate will be interesting - it's a town hall. Hillary needs to connect with the questioner and then move out from there to the camera. This format is tough for Trump - he doesn't connect well (he screams from a podium), he needs crowd feedback to fill in for his complete lack of substance, he has to be really careful not to look like he's trying to intimidate her.
He's also desperate. When you get a wild animal caged step away and let it go.
womanofthehills
(8,661 posts)He has to have the last sick word
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)swing it. It will also motivate those who already support her to GOTV
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)She has been giving positive policy statements. That gets you a 30 second mention on the news. She needs to keep giving policy addresses, but pepper them with reminder why Herr Drumpf is unsuitable.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Sorry to say, but a positive message gets NO Play this cycle. We have to deal with that reality.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)And personally, I don't consider it "negativity" considering how she's handled it. She's been graceful and direct. The post-debate surge is evidence that exposing this man for what he is makes a difference. We would mever have had this week of self-destruction by Trump if HRC hadn't mentioned his cruelty to Ms. Machado.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I wish it weren't true. I'm frustarted with it, but it is what it is. Her policy speeches will barely get a mention. They are barely mentioned now. And we cannot cede the airways completely to Drumpf.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)of it). If they have to show something - they will look for a trashing statement. Don't give them one.
Maybe we can meet in the middle. When he talks/acts crazy - go high. When he listens to KA one day and goes high - go low
I really didn't think much about this subject before - if I hadn't seen the stark image of her trashing with the signs Love Trumps Hate. It looked bad. If I was undecided, I would think, OK, she's preaching love and not acting loving.
Also, read that that is the prime roadblock for undecideds - they want to hear all positive policy.
underpants
(182,631 posts)not about her.
She is really impressive. Maybe not touchy-feely but she is sharp as a tack and people get that once they get to hear and see her.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)gone through pneumonia I'd be looking around saying "UHHHH where am I ?"
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)She's BY FAR the better candidate. WE know that. We love her (most of us anyway...). But that's us.
Both times HRC has surged ahead in the polls were less about what she said (though she was great in the debate), but more about ridiculous things Trump did. Keeping the focus on him has done nothing but help our side.
It was the blank space in between, only the matter of a couple of weeks ago, when she WAS talking policy but Trump hadn't done anything particularly dumb lately, that the polls looked DANGEROUSLY close and were moving even closer.
The media is controlling the narrative and her policy talk is never going to spur the media to action, but Trump's latest stupid goof WILL. Her team is smart to egg that on.
Certainly, put your policy specifics out there. But our biggest trump card is still... *ahem*... Trump.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)with Clinton being so knowledgeable, sane, and in command at the debate. Who knows how long that will last.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)She has excellent advisers, and her own sense of what to do is just fine. She has been focusing on the positive, but there's no reason to let Trump walk all over her in debate situations. She did fine the first debate. If Trump ramps up his attacks, she will have a response ready for anything he might say, I'm sure.
I wouldn't presume to give her or her campaign any advice at all. They've got this.