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HillChange posted...

ROFLMAO. Being the anointed one is one of the reasons people voted against Hillary. The DNC can't be stupid enough to try that again, can they?

There are huge number of possible options between "We are forcing this person down your throat whether you like it or not" and "We are a massive clusterfuck of idiots bumbling around in a dark room". Unfortunately, those seem to be the two main strategies of both parties these days.

You can't throw a bunch of randos into a room during the primaries and wait for one of them to win. Politics is almost entirely a PR game these days, which means you need to start building smart PR long before that. And that PR needs to focus on someone who has actual charisma and seems both professional and competent as well. You can't just take a loathsome c*** and try to slap a new paint job on them 20 minutes before their campaign starts.

The goal is to present someone who seems like the perfect candidate, who will blow through the primaries because everyone will WANT to vote for them, not picking someone that a lot of people hate and telling them they'll vote for her anyway if they know what's good for them. Or waiting until after a vicious primary battle where everyone shits on each other before putting your support behind one candidate.

It's the difference between treating the voter-base like a petulant child who needs to be coaxed, manipulated, or outright ordered to do their chores, and being a marketing company whose job it is to make the consumer absolutely WANT and NEED your product.

People act like voters these days are too savvy to fall for that, but everything we've seen over the last 20 years implies modern voters aren't even remotely savvy in any realistic or meaningful way. If anything, the Internet has made most of us more gullible than ever.


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