2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocratic Presidential Race Explodes After Data Breach
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic race for president unexpectedly exploded with rancor Friday, as Hillary Clinton's campaign accused rival Bernie Sanders of stealing millions of dollars worth of information about potential voters.
Sanders team, meanwhile, accused the Democratic Party of holding his White House bid hostage by temporarily barring it from accessing its own voter data. His campaign filed a lawsuit to get it back and aggressively tried to turn the allegations into a political advantage.
"This information is really key to our campaign and our strategy," said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. "We are particularly disturbed right now that they are using the fact that they stole data as a reason to raise money for their campaign."
The reaction to the data breach, the depth of which was debated by all involved, tore open an ugly fault line between two camps that had so far engaged in a relatively civil campaign.
On the eve of the party's next presidential debate, it also thrust into the open longstanding suspicions among Sanders and his supporters that the national party is unfairly working to support Clinton's candidacy.
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randys1
(16,286 posts)Where is that video where he says he loves to tune in national disasters on the TV.
Surely this is one way to get one, watch the only sane people in the room self destruct.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Those ratings just went up. Those that were not going to watch will. Obviously those having a party or traveling won't be able to. But l guaranree that ratings will be better then expected.
randys1
(16,286 posts)to bring this kind of attention to something or someone.
Now which person needs attention
Randy, do you EVER get tired of being right
peacebird
(14,195 posts)With the vendor being her 2008 IT guy, and DWS ignoring the terms of the agreement with the campaign (10 days to correct problem once notified)
Let us say the DNC/DLC/HRC camp has declared war & Bernie righteously has filed a lawsuit because he will not be bullied.
Game Effin On.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)The guys on Bernie's staff "did" steal the information, they admitted it, although the tried to spin it as nothing really, and they got caught. Now someone on Bernie's team is trying to make him the "victim" here, and it's going to backfire. Sure they may make some money this, but when the facts come out, spin it all you want, if they show more people involved it will come back to haunt
Bernie. Yes give him back his data, but stop the playing the "victim" card.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)to undermine Senator Sander's campaign.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Especially their Data Security and Privacy section.
http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy
Someone(s) not being completely on the level an d they're running to put out forest fires.