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The Democratic National Committee announced on Sunday that Hillary Clintons campaign had turned over its email list, giving the party a major boost as it rebuilds under a new chair and prepares for the midterm elections next year and the 2020 presidential race.
The list, provided as an in-kind contribution from the Hillary for America campaign organization, includes more than 10 million new names that the DNC did not have on its voter files, according to both Clinton and DNC aides. The contribution was valued as $3.5 million, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.
This information will help candidates up and down the ballot engage with voters and win seats from the school board to the Senate, said Xochitl Hinojosa, communications director for the DNC. Were seeing momentum and energy across the country, and this investment will help us harness the energy and turn it into votes.
The decision to turn over the email list ― in addition to providing the DNC with its analytics and voter modeling tools ― fulfills a campaign promise that Clinton made. During the primary, the former secretary of state pledged that if she were nominated, she would focus her resources on rebuilding a Democratic Party infrastructure that had decayed under President Barack Obama.
Obamas win in 2008 had bolstered the partys elected ranks. But his own outside group, Organizing for Action, attempted to play much of the traditional role of the DNC, fostering frustration within party ranks. National and state party officials worried that local races were neglected in favor of Obama-specific ones. And they chaffed that they were not given complete access to the OFA email list until 2015.
Clintons email list will allow the party and its state affiliates to more effectively target voters in the lead-up to the 2018 midterms. But the party still does not have the crown jewel of email lists: that collected by Sen. Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign, which has the names of millions of individuals who do not associate with the Democratic Party and were brought into the political process largely because of their affinity for the independent Vermont senator.
Sanders team has been reluctant to hand that information to the DNC out of fear that the list will be misused by the committee and under the belief that the individuals on it did not sign up as Democrats but as supporters of Sanders.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-dnc-email-list_us_58f278b9e4b0da2ff8613acf?nxo&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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delisen
(6,044 posts)Seems like the problem has been candidates want the DNC to work them but they don't want to work to help the DNC help others.
How do you build a party by competing with it?
delisen
(6,044 posts)Gothmog
(145,415 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Good for Hillary. She actually cares about the Democratic Party.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... to attack and smear Democrats with accusations of being weak or corrupt. She's a true and loyal Democrat who knows that the strength of a party comes from unity and working together for a common cause and by LIFTING the party UP... rather than publicly tearing it down at every opportunity.
2naSalit
(86,685 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)It sets a good example. Others (both as individuals and as campaign organizations) should aspire to be like this.
I really love how she instinctively knows that this is all BIGGER than just one person. She's a woman who doesn't wallow in self-indulgent pettiness or vanity. We need more politicians to follow her lead and abandon the politics revenge and sabotage.
She continues to inspire me with her grace and confidence, her intelligence, her sincerity, and her determination. I was with her, I am with her, and I'll always continue to be with her.
NBachers
(17,128 posts)came along.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)NCTraveler
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Stinky The Clown
(67,812 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,098 posts)PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Don't do it Bernie!!!
still_one
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George II
(67,782 posts)Gothmog
(145,415 posts)Cha
(297,405 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Gothmog
(145,415 posts)This was the correct thing to do.
Hillary Clinton is a member of the Democratic Party and supports the Democratic Party
LisaM
(27,816 posts)I found this part of the article extremely interesting, as it bolsters up an opinion I've had of a sort of aloofness between Obama and the rank and file Democrats.
The decision to turn over the email list ― in addition to providing the DNC with its analytics and voter modeling tools ― fulfills a campaign promise that Clinton made. During the primary, the former secretary of state pledged that if she were nominated, she would focus her resources on rebuilding a Democratic Party infrastructure that had decayed under President Barack Obama.
Obamas win in 2008 had bolstered the partys elected ranks. But his own outside group, Organizing for Action, attempted to play much of the traditional role of the DNC, fostering frustration within party ranks. National and state party officials worried that local races were neglected in favor of Obama-specific ones. And they chaffed that they were not given complete access to the OFA email list until 2015.
Cha
(297,405 posts)this.. thank you for posting!
Hillary cares about our Planet!