New Hampshire 2008
The reason is simple: the (2012) campaign brought in more small-dollar fundraising through email, social media, mobile and its website during the final months of the race than initially projected
Can the Democratic Party repeat this in the face of a bench from a Team of Rivals and did HRC do enough to support those 2014 candidates, especially those Democrats who lost. It's going to be about the coattails or at least the pantsuit tails. Certainly
Republico (and not even the Brussels branch) is trying to sow seeds of decisiveness on the union support for HRC.
Hillary Clinton’s populism problem: What her awkward campaign trail comments reveal about her biggest weakness
Emphasis on “ham-handed.” Clinton’s clumsy language reveals a politician woefully out of sync with her party’s progressive populist base. Her awkward attempt to relate to the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party calls to mind Mitt Romney’s cringe-inducing efforts to woo GOP conservatives during his last presidential bid. Michael Kinsley aptly compared Romney’s rhetorical red meat to serving haggis to your Scottish cousins when they’re in for a visit. “You can’t stand the stuff, but they’re supposed to like it,” Kinsley wrote. Likewise, it was hard not to get the sense that Clinton, so unable to relate to the progressive strain of Democratic thinking, simply thought that this is the kind of talk Warren Democrats like to hear.
2008
In 2005, Democrats launched the 50-State Strategy—an ambitious effort to build the Democratic Party from the ground up in every single precinct, city, and state in the country.
We know that we won't be able to win everywhere until we are able to compete everywhere, and that means fielding candidates and providing resources to even the most traditionally "red" parts of the country. The DNC works in partnership with state Democratic parties and Organizing for America to provide resources for electoral efforts, voter registration, candidate recruitment, volunteer recruitment, and training.
In a short time, the 50-State Strategy already has a strong record of success. In the 2006 midterm elections, Democrats were able to take back the House of Representatives and pick up Senate seats in traditionally Republican Missouri and Montana. In 2008, President Obama helped expand the electoral map even further, winning states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Colorado, Nevada, and Florida.
Under Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz today, Democrats continue an aggressive and forward-looking effort based on the belief that if we invest in people, and if we invest in our party, we can turn once-red districts and states blue in elections to come.
In 2016 it's more than Wall Street (Occupied or not), or Main Street - it's about every damn alleyway or the streets and sidewalks where folks get shot or strangled.
Nearly a year ago, Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina took to YouTube with an expletive-laden post-holiday message for supporters. “People have speculated that this is a billion dollar campaign,” Messina said. “That’s bull—-.” And he meant it, at the time.
But when the final numbers are counted, Obama’s aides now expect more than $1 billion dollars to have been raised by the 2012 campaign and its affiliated party committees, breaking the 10-figure milestone for the first time in history. The reason is simple: the campaign brought in more small-dollar fundraising through email, social media, mobile and its website during the final months of the race than initially projected.
In total, according to new campaign calculations acquired exclusively by TIME, the Obama team raised about $690 million digitally in 2012, up from about $500 million in 2008, according to a senior campaign adviser. That number includes all contributions that were given electronically, including some donations that were generated by high-dollar fundraisers but logged through the website.
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1:55 PM PT: in the interest of disclosure I did donate to Warren's Senate campaign but as I indicated in a recent diary she's going to have to promise to burn ATL. The real issues are still all about grassroots and combating the forces of LIV, LoFo 'baggers and their kleptocrat bosses