Hillary Clinton is winning with a hyper-local strategy
I have always just thought of this strategy as listening to the locals and doing her homework.
Hillary Clinton is winning with a hyper-local strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/08/daily-202-hillary-clinton-is-winning-with-a-hyper-local-strategy/56de2040981b92a22d7612d7/?tid=sm_tw
By James Hohmann March 8 at 8:37 AM
Hillary Clinton visits Atomic Projects in Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
THE BIG IDEA:
-- Michigan should have been fertile territory for Bernie Sanders’s populist and protectionist message, but he’s expected to lose the Democratic primary there today by double digits.
What happened?
Hillary Clinton made the race in Michigan all about the lead in Flint’s water, her opposition to the state’s controversial emergency manager law and her opponent’s vote against a bailout for the auto industry.
The crisis in Flint had been going on for some time before the former Secretary of State sent emissaries to visit, secured the endorsement of the city’s mayor and then insisted on having a debate in the city, 70 miles northwest of Detroit.
It is part of a pattern for Clinton. She’s approached every primary more like it was a Senate race than a presidential election by identifying a local issue that would play to her advantage and then championing it.
Clinton is also overwhelmingly favored to win today’s Democratic primary in Mississippi, where she’s been speaking extensively about the levels of lead in Jackson’s water. ............................
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