She's grown on me.
I was pretty lukewarm on her, initially. I wanted her to face a challenge in the primaries, which she definitely did. But the Benghazi hearing where she stomped on the little GOP witch-hunters is what started me coming 'round. The way she handled herself during the primaries was impressive, too. No, she's not a natural politician. But she's tough as hell, and smart, and I think she's generally on the right side of things.
The sub-zero quality of her opponent helps, too.
Basically, she is blessed by the enemies she has attracted.
indeed.
and, it’s hard not to look good when your opponent is the Yammering Yam of NY.
The mood of the country is for desperately needed change. The Sanders campaign and the Trump campaign demonstrated that as two outsiders floated to the top of the heap.
Only the DNC’s ability to ‘fix’ the primary through “super delegates” (party insiders and sitting Democratic politicians) and, of course the dirty tricks exposed by Wikileaks did Sanders lose.
Hillary represents the status quo, the establishment candidate.
I believe she will have a tougher time than anyone thinks winning the presidency.
Only the DNC’s ability to ‘fix’ the primary through “super delegates”
each of the superdelegates is an actual person with the ability to decide who to vote for all by themselves. and they are all dedicated party members. so it should surprise absolutely nobody that they favored another long-time party workhorse over someone who just jumped into the party for convenience.
there were no dirty tricks at the DNC. they didn’t sway any primaries or caucuses. nobody’s vote was changed by the existence of emails that nobody outside the sender and recipient knew about until last week.
Baloney. Hill won fair and square. The actions of DWS and the DNC were shameful and not worthy of Democratic ideals.
But: she won fair and square.
…it should surprise absolutely nobody that they favored another long-time party workhorse over someone who just jumped into the party for convenience.
Many of Senator Sanders’ supporters are young people that did not know the rules. Silly them, they thought it was a democratic process.
and now they’ve learned a valuable lesson: read the rules before you jump in.
Yes, you are correct.
However skewed and unfair, they should have had their eyes wide open and know going in what they were up against…They didn’t.
And the other lesson they have learned is the Democratic party establishment rides roughshod over the little people voters.
It will be interesting to see if all of those that felt the Bern will now support the establishment candidate, or will they stay home?
let em stay home. the rest of us will do what’s necessary to keep Trump out of power.