Hillary Clinton: A campaign built on wobbly pillars
- 8 years ago
After Hillary Clinton’s shellacking in New Hampshire, her strategists are retooling her campaign to fend off the insurgent challenge from Bernie Sanders. Yet while Clinton's the betting favorite to clinch the Democratic nomination, many assumptions about her campaign are shaky at best.
The votes were still being counted in New Hampshire on Tuesday night when Hillary Clinton’s campaign swung into damage-control mode, downplaying the importance of her expected defeat in the Granite State and calling it an outcome that had been “long anticipated”.
"While important, the first four states [Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina] represent just 4 percent of the delegates needed to secure the nomination; the 28 states that vote (or caucus) in March will award 56 percent of the delegates needed to win,” Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, cautioned in a memo.
The insinuation, of course, was that Hillary Clinton will be on far more solid footing once the US primary season leaves Iowa and New Hampshire in the rear-view mirror, and heads into bigger and more diverse states that better reflect the American electorate.
The conventional wisdom in this very unconventional presidential campaign is that the more challenging electoral terrain ahead will slow – or halt – Bernie Sanders’s momentum.
Clinton, meanwhile, will hit her stride and finally emerge as the Democrats’ consensus candidate.
Everything but the kitchen sink
It would mark a return to a halcyon era – way back in June 2015 – when Clinton’s “coronation” was seen as a foregone conclusion, and Britain’s New Statesman magaz... Go on reading on our web site.
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The votes were still being counted in New Hampshire on Tuesday night when Hillary Clinton’s campaign swung into damage-control mode, downplaying the importance of her expected defeat in the Granite State and calling it an outcome that had been “long anticipated”.
"While important, the first four states [Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina] represent just 4 percent of the delegates needed to secure the nomination; the 28 states that vote (or caucus) in March will award 56 percent of the delegates needed to win,” Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, cautioned in a memo.
The insinuation, of course, was that Hillary Clinton will be on far more solid footing once the US primary season leaves Iowa and New Hampshire in the rear-view mirror, and heads into bigger and more diverse states that better reflect the American electorate.
The conventional wisdom in this very unconventional presidential campaign is that the more challenging electoral terrain ahead will slow – or halt – Bernie Sanders’s momentum.
Clinton, meanwhile, will hit her stride and finally emerge as the Democrats’ consensus candidate.
Everything but the kitchen sink
It would mark a return to a halcyon era – way back in June 2015 – when Clinton’s “coronation” was seen as a foregone conclusion, and Britain’s New Statesman magaz... Go on reading on our web site.
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