How Iowa Went Wrong For Hillary Clinton

[John Poet]

How Iowa went wrong for Hillary Clinton
Her vaunted field organization performed as expected. But she didn't.
By Glenn Thrush and Annie Karni
02/02/16 03:17 AM EST

DES MOINES – Monday night was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in miniature – it began with high hopes of a doubt-eradicating victory and ended with that same old anxiety, an inch beyond the jaws of an underdog.

Clinton’s frustrating second Iowa campaign started with a puckish, incognito cross-country trip in April in her “Scooby Van” meant to emphasize her softer side after eight years out of retail politics. It ended here with a full-throated Bernie Sanders–style vow to challenge “the status quo,” intended to make her palatable to progressives who demand a hard-edged approach to income inequality.

Iowa wasn’t just supposed to be a tentative first step in Clinton’s inevitable march to the Democratic nomination, it was meant to be the cornerstone of a rebuilt political persona – and her national team was built from Iowa outward, with a foundational goal of winning here, and winning big.

But nothing is ever easy with Hillary Clinton – especially not here - and her inability to ride a first-class ground organization to a decisive triumph underscores the candidate’s weakness and the lack of a message that resonates with primary voters. For months, the Republican side of the aisle has been filled with drama and uncertainty – yet in the end it was a 74-year-old, wild-haired democratic socialist who has muddied a contest that was supposed to be predictable.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-iowa-performance-218607#ixzz3z4CsJkYd

[leveymg]

1. That, my friends, is how bare victory becomes resounding defeat

It'always self-inflicted defeat with her. It's what she does. Would be truly disastrous in a President and Commander in Chief.

[onehandle]

2. She won. Any positive territory for a candidate dominating nationally is a win.

See: Math

[Metric System]

3. The media loves Hillary!

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!!

[uponit7771]

5. Clinton won PoC vote by 25%... What went wrong in IA with Sanders?

[John Poet]

6. If Clinton won that demographic by ONLY 25 percent,

then Sanders picked up a lot of ground with them there, since national polls have showed him much further behind than that.

I expect you know that.