Hillary misses the mark with millennials

[leftcoastmountains]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/06/hillary_misses_mark_with_millennials_127995.html

-What looked like a block-long line turned out to be a crowd that could barely fill one-fourth of a football field. And the students in attendance? Well, they weren't exactly there to support the former secretary of State.

“I am sort of a Bernie (Sanders) fan. I also had nothing else to do at 10 in the morning,” said Brian Miller, a chemical engineering student from Pittsburgh, waiting with more than a dozen friends for the event to start.

-David Lituchy of Morgantown, W.Va., was there on the off-chance he'd see a different Clinton: “I am here for Bill. He would definitely liven things up here.”

He said he's leaning toward Sanders, too.

[appalachiablue]

1. 'It was as if time had passed her by'. Says a lot.

[merrily]

4. Contradistinctively, Sanders has been ahead of his time all his life.

Tends to happens when you stay on the right side of history. Good principles never get outdated.

50 years later, America is finally starting to catch up to what liberals of the 50s and 60s tried to convey.

What seems popular from time to time dates quickly and badly.



Go, Bernie.

[djean111]

2. This -

Clinton spoke for 30 minutes on voter suppression, gun control, women's reproductive rights; she called Republicans “terrorists” and championed foster care. The only time she caught the audience's attention was with a brief mention of college affordability.

It was as if time had passed her by.

This trip was billed as a grassroots support mechanism, with every attendee required to sign a pledge of support before entering the field.

What it showed was a campaign staff that is underachieving at best or failing their candidate at worst, and a candidate trapped by that staff's arrogance and her own insecurity as a campaigner.

WTF? So, now does real clear politics get thrown under the bus? I am not sorry to read this stuff, because I want Bernie to be my next president. But - clueless? Entitled? Assured of a victory? Phoning it in, and out of touch. IMO and all that.

[merrily]

5. Attempt to manipulate. Embarrassing.

So, they're campaigning together?

[L0oniX]

9. Vote suppression = Diebold machines.

I'd find good use for my invisible ink pen in signing that mega bull shit pledge.

[Demeter]

3. Losing ground with other generations, too

The ones that are paying attention and keeping score...

[PatrickforO]

6. In 2007, I became a strong Obama supporter, and in 2008 volunteered for his

campaign. I can remember feeling very sorry for Clinton as she tried to lift up her failing campaign. I looked at pictures of her then, as well as footage of sparsely attended events and it was very sad. But I still supported Obama.

Now, in 2015, I'm strongly supporting Bernie Sanders because he's the FIRST presidential candidate in my voting life (I'll be 57 my next birthday) who has actually spoken of the things that actually matter to me. Free college education for my grandchildren, expanded Social Security for me and millions of other Americans who have worked hard their whole lives, and single payer healthcare, to benefit ALL Americans, and ALL American businesses, particularly small ones. Bernie speaks for me, I think.

So, now I'm seeing pictures of Clinton and watching footage of her campaigning and again feel sorry for her. Her eyes are empty and she seems to be going through the motions, hoping against hope that she can be the next president. It is very sad.

But I'm still supporting Bernie.

[R. P. McMurphy]

7. ^^ Exactly ^^

I feel I could have written this post.

[L0oniX]

8. More than miss a mark, millennials will not vote for Hillary IMO.

Every young millennial I have been able to speak with all say the same thing ...they will not vote for Hillary but most likely would vote for Bernie in the GE.

[Divernan]

10. Who's more clueless, HRC or her staff?

Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, running for a U.S. Senate seat next year, tried the same line, with the same results. Strickland also tried some good old-fashioned speechifying that ended with him screaming at the audience. The kids kept asking each other, “Who is this guy?” The applause was sparse, the moment awkward.

A good politician would have noticed when he/she took the stage that the audience was filled with kids who likely did not grow up in Ohio (19 percent of Case Western Reserve University students are foreign-born) and were barely 12 years old when Clinton battled to win the state in 2008.

Instead, Clinton launched into a memorial for Ohio congressmen who were significant long before these kids were politically aware, then thanked the kids for their votes in 2008. (Again, they would have been 12 back then.)

“You lifted me up when I was down and out,” she said, referring to Ohio voters who got her flailing 2008 campaign back on its feet temporarily. There wasn't the sound of crickets chirping, but no one picked up what she put down.