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DCBob

(24,689 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 07:33 PM Oct 2016

Clinton aims to run up the score

From the Politico..

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and her allies have an animating aim in the final 14 days of the 2016 contest – drive up the score so dramatically that claims by Donald Trump of Democratic vote-rigging will be rendered inconsequential thanks to the margin of victory.

And if their final bombardment of campaign activity drags down-ballot Democrats across the finish line and sweeps proponents of Trump's alt-right ideology off the political table, all the better.

Already having banked millions of early votes as Trump’s campaign spiraled over the last three weeks, Clinton’s headquarters and battleground states teams now see a high-single-digit margin of victory as realistic – something that looks as decisive as Barack Obama’s 2008 win over John McCain.

To maintain that lead, the Clinton operation, its allies at the Democratic National Committee, and the party’s Senate and House campaign wings are deploying dozens of surrogates to battleground and “reach” states, investing in an advertising and get-out-the-vote blitz and pumping new organizing muscle into a trio of Republican states that are trending Clinton’s way.

More: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-big-win-2016-squash-rigged-talk-230247

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This is very good news indeed. I was a bit concerned they would become cautious and play prevent defense now and just cruise to victory. That would probably result in a win but would also likely leave some votes and states on the table. We have a chance for a massive landslide and make some huge gains in Congress.

I recall James Carville famously saying "When your opponent is drowning throw the SOB an anvil". I think they are following that strategy.

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Clinton aims to run up the score (Original Post) DCBob Oct 2016 OP
This isn't High School basketball. Ready4Change Oct 2016 #1
Yes indeed. DCBob Oct 2016 #2

Ready4Change

(6,736 posts)
1. This isn't High School basketball.
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 09:21 PM
Oct 2016

No need to be polite. In fact every reason to drive the point home: Trump is not, and should never be, the sort of person who has any chance of reaching the White House.

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