2016 Postmortem

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Dec 16, 2016, 12:45 PM Dec 2016

Donors Demand Autopsy of Clinton Campaign [View all]

December 16, 2016
By Taegan Goddard

Politico: “The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she’d win didn’t begin immediately after the election — there was too much shock over her defeat by Donald Trump, and overwhelming grief. Her initial conference call with top backers, which came just days after the outcome, focused primarily on FBI Director Jim Comey’s late campaign-season intervention.”

“But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton’s losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/16/donors-demand-autopsy-clinton-campaign/

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Donors Demand Autopsy of Clinton Campaign [View all] DonViejo Dec 2016 OP

Well gosh they're weeks behind us at DU then? Interesting they aren't .... bettyellen Dec 2016 #1

Comey, Russian hacks are easy to identify. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #2

Any one of a number of small changes could have reversed it... bettyellen Dec 2016 #3

realistically, the first step is to fix what's in our power to fix. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #5

And I think fixing the election laws, getting people IDs in time while trying to end Crosscheck bettyellen Dec 2016 #7

agreed and a billion dollars should have okieinpain Dec 2016 #9

Unfortunately they had to run a campaign as well. bettyellen Dec 2016 #12

Excuses, excuses. I doubt we'll excuse ourselves into the majority any time soon. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #13

spreading that money around should have been part of the okieinpain Dec 2016 #20

Wrong. They will still want outsiders but he right ones! People are SICK of establishment politics! RBInMaine Dec 2016 #14

I don't get it. Up until recently, we were ruthlessly mocking the GOP for doing this. Keep dionysus Dec 2016 #24

"the media assumed people preferred scandals and mud flinging." citood Dec 2016 #26

Exactly. Else You Are Mad Dec 2016 #4

agreed to hear that people were concerned and okieinpain Dec 2016 #11

Why should they hold themselves accountable? EL34x4 Dec 2016 #16

Wasn't just Comey. triron Dec 2016 #21

Not gonna like it. HassleCat Dec 2016 #6

What success? duffyduff Dec 2016 #23

If you're going to play that game, at least he didn't have to face the humiliation of getting smoked dionysus Dec 2016 #25

$1 Billion? That's a lot of money for social justice issues. jalan48 Dec 2016 #8

which will result in exactly the kind of analysis that sinks us for the foreseeable future 0rganism Dec 2016 #10

Funny thing is, Trump did better among minority voters in 2016 EL34x4 Dec 2016 #18

The first thing to do is to STOP pandering to these rich donors and become a grassroots party again! RBInMaine Dec 2016 #15

That would be driven by a populist candidate who will not exist for a couple of years HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #19

Did you notice that Trump spent half of what Clinton did? citood Dec 2016 #27

trumpt has a built in media advantage that any other candidate won't have. Merlot Dec 2016 #29

Odds are Trump will be running in 2020 citood Dec 2016 #30

I'm not saying outspend him Merlot Dec 2016 #31

If Trump does not run in 2020, Pence will HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #36

Going to be a traditional campaign in 2020 HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #34

+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #35

They say that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #17

Ask Putin, you dipshits. NT duffyduff Dec 2016 #22

Russia. Comey, lies about email. onecaliberal Dec 2016 #28

Hilarious. Big donors are the problem. George Eliot Dec 2016 #32

Great, I hope someone tells them and they make a huge stink about it. ucrdem Dec 2016 #33