But how did Hillary's campaign stay so bad?
Time (http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1738331,00.html) recently published a list of the five critical errors Hillary Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton) committed in her run for the White House. It's concise, but I can sum it up even more tightly: Her campaign theme was "Vote for Hillary Clinton because she's Hillary Clinton."
She rolled in assuming she would win on name recognition. She surrounded herself with loyalists who believed "being Hillary" was enough to earn her the nomination. She never developed a real message even after the competition heated up. I have no doubt this was the core flaw of her campaign. So we know what went wrong, but why the hell didn't it get better?
Was she oblivious to the problem? Was she unwilling to dump her loyalists even though their blind loyalty was dragging her down? Or was she truly arrogant enough to believe she didn't need a strong campaign to carry her back to her former home?
How her campaign failed is obvious. That she managed to press forward, despite the ineptitude of her campaign, is a testament to the strength of her candidacy. Why her campaign never got off its dead-end track is a mystery.
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But how did Hillary's campaign stay so bad?
posted by Sumocat at 5/08/2008 07:21:00 PM
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