The vaunted data-driven machine that twice got President Barack Obama elected is revving up to help elect Hillary Clinton, as Democrats look to recreate the tactical advantage they used against Republicans in 2008 and 2012.
With Obama's popularity rebounding, Democrats have been eagerly awaiting the president's return to campaigning, and he'll hold his debut event for her Tuesday in North Carolina. Yet campaign officials say just as critical to her success could be an Obama political operation that remains potent four years after his re-election, including deep troves of voter and donor information, and a corps of trained field staffers and volunteers that Clinton's campaign is now co-opting.
The crown jewel of Obama's machine, an email list of supporters that included 20 million addresses in 2012, is now fully available to Clinton.
Well this is great news since clearly President Obama's campaign team knows how to win presidential elections.
It should also serve as yet another indication that Hillary Clinton is not going to face any legal repercussions from the FBI probe into her private server.
Simply put there is NO WAY that President Obama would put all of these resources at her disposal if he thought there was even the slimmest of possibilities that she would face indictment.
Which is something by the way that the Libertarian presidential candidate also agrees with.
Trolls respond with angry diatribes and links to Right Wing news sites in 3..2..1Gary Johnson: "I don't think there has been criminal intent" from Hillary Clinton https://t.co/1FIKzrf8Kb #CNNSOTU https://t.co/sazpePmGQV— CNN (@CNN) July 3, 2016
I will certainly miss President Obama but I look forward to all of the good things that President Clinton 45 will do for the country.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteAnd I think she's going to be a great President!
It's showtime...Let's make it happen, Democrats!! Our first woman president. We can do it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know who is more upset, Trumps followers or Bernies.
DeleteWATCH: CNN’s Trump Fluffer Brazenly Lies About The FBI’s Clinton Inquiry – And CNN Let’s Him
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=31981
Angry diatribes and links to right wing sites is all they have. They believe the lies (because they want to believe) they have been told for years. Unfortunately, there are a lot of these fools. Trump counts on these uneducated and foolish folks for votes.
ReplyDeleteRep. Becerra did his part to make the bad Republican week even worse.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/03/top-democrat-storms-fox-news-shreds-foxs-clinton-benghazi-lies.html
It has always been reassuring seeing these two working together.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to watch them together on the campaign trail!
ReplyDeleteNow the fun starts. Not to be outdone, McCain is releasing everyone who rented bowling shoes from his long list of data to the RNC.
ReplyDeleteInteresting demographic, Anita. What do you think it means?
DeleteConsidering whom he picked for VP, it was a reference from a movie I used early on to describe Sarah. The best lines from "Arthur" Sir John Gielgud says "I'd have to go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature". It's early on in this clip:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_bwL1QF1xg
Trump is crude, vulgar, vile, and the most undesirable presidential candidate in the history of the United State of America.
ReplyDeleteEstablishment people protect each other. Intelligent REAL progressives hate them both.
ReplyDeleteHuh. By your jarring placement of adjectives, I must surmise that you write like a Republican. @5:55
DeleteI agree with you if you definition of a "progressive" includes being willing to cut off your nose to spite your face. Some progressives won't compromise. Others will. Unless the definition of a progressive includes never compromising.
DeleteLucy.
And yet your Mater ran under the Democratic banner and went no where because he refused to release his income tax statements. Now I am a Democrat, what s his statements is setting spellcheck off?
DeleteOT, Bernie is a loser
@anon 5:55pm
DeleteI have been a progressive Democrat since 1963, is that enough for you or do you need a member of their communist party? I will be waiting on pins and needles for you to tell me why I shouldn't support my candidate.
I'm so damned old a progressive that you need to thank me for the ability to buy a fucking condom, now run along, I think your Mommy is calling you to clean that basement room she lets you live in.
DeleteFuck off with your holier than thou purity tests, asshole.
DeleteThey HATE each other. There are two other people who have more secrecy.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! The right wing is soooo scared. Too funny.
DeleteYes, I am sure they have both confided their deepest personal feelings to little old you many times.
DeletePerception is everything, truth has little to do with it. Clinton is ahead nationally by 5 points. Trump has a great chance of winning.
ReplyDeleteNate Silver: "He has a 20% chance of wining and that's before the disastrous GOP convention."
DeleteRather than justifying your magical thinking with more bullshit, try doing the electoral math for each state. Trump will be what he fears most come election night - a big fat loser. And if he figures those facts out before Election Day, he'll quit, just like his little puppet, Sarah Palin.
DeleteHis aim shouldn't be to be ahead nationally. His aim should be to be ahead in enough electoral states to win the electoral college. That's a much higher bar for him (much higher than being ahead nationally, and much higher than the bar for Hillary - she/Dems has more paths to victory than Repubs).
DeleteLucy
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^^ winning
DeleteExcept perception has both Bernie and tRump losing by over 10%. Roll on weed man, roll on.
DeleteYou name calling Clinton assholes just can't believe he's that close. Get used to losing, losers.
Delete7:03 PM "You name calling Clinton assholes".
DeleteHow ironic, accusing us of being name callers, while calling us assholes. How close are you to having a "head sploding" episode, sick person? Will Hillary Clinton's election cause you to go ' ISIS' on us all? Are you on the 'NO FLY LIST'? Did your Mama have any kids that she did not institutionalize?
@ anon 6:49pm
DeleteYou should have had one of your children actually graduate from HS Sarah. it's very simple math, get Piper off those 1st grade flash cards and you would know that already.
Responding in kind is all you assholes understand, or deserve.
Delete5:03 - sorry you have such limited communication abilities (how frustrating for you!) but with your low IQ and damaged personality, what do you expect?
Delete5:59 PM Has escaped from the asylum again.
ReplyDelete5:59pm is helping Jane look for those tax filings.
DeleteProbably Celia, without Gryphen naming her blog roll she would NEVER have a visitor.
DeleteOT
ReplyDeleteGryphen, you'll love this!! Ms. Gibberish gets bitch slapped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxmOHM00gEY
Thanks for sharing. That was excellent!
DeleteGO Bama!!!
ReplyDeleteHere's info for the "also ran" crowd. You can either be on the right side of history or not.
Let me make it very plain to you, you can either be on the right side of history or not
The revolution is happening, it can happen without without you or not, we are steeping up!
Personally, I think it is laughable that you white people think you run elections.
ReplyDelete#TheMinoritiesAreHere, Get used to it
We elected President Obama twice and will continue to control Nat'l elections.
Last I checked your guy is only half black, and yes, the minorities ARE here, just read the crime section of any newspaper in the US and you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know about minorities.
DeleteWhy so racist 9:24? Expect us - signed The Obama Coalition.
Delete@9:24 PM Is Track Palin a minority? Is Sarah Palin a minority,"I'll do what I want until the courts say I can't"? Is Robert Dear a minority? Is Donald Trump a minority? Is your Mama still wearing her pee-stained white sheet and coward's hood, bigot?
Delete10 year ago she would've hired a hit man on her.
ReplyDeleteWhat a collossally stupid comment. It's a monumental.
DeleteWhat?
DeleteScars remind us where we've been not where we're headed.
ReplyDeleteHuh? Like the one in bristol's mouth from her chin implant?
DeleteThe universe is ever expanding. There is no 'staying the same' or 'bringing back the past'. If we don't evolve, we perish. Too bad for all of us that the GOP is determined to hang on to that which was.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
Gryphen, while I think it is commendable that you list other AK blogs, I really do think that if one of those blog owners continually trolls you that you need to cut them lose. Yea, Celia I am talking about you and Gryphen knows because there are these things called IP addresses.
ReplyDeleteShe always identifies herself when she posts.
Delete9:21 - not always
DeleteFormer Asst. FBI Director shatters MSM spin of HRC FBI Interrogation 07/02/16
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrx8Ji8giL4
That guy does not know what he's talking about. He was wrong about two things, possibly 3. I guess that's why he's a former employee.
DeleteAlso, he has not worked there in 8 years; he gained more recent notoriety for slamming the city of Baltimore in racial terms on TV.
DeleteToo bad somebody didn't drown while swimming in the Kenai River today. Try harder next time.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe anyone was dumb enough to swim in the Kenai! The water is only 50-55 degrees. Hope they were wearing a drysuit 'cause that's nuts!
DeleteBack on topic. The reason that Obama won the Democratic nomination in 2008 is that he had a far superior ground campaign. I had the opportunity to see it in action, as well as Hillary's poor effort in New York State back then. I used to run union organizing campaigns and envied Obama's effort. As much as I liked them both, I knew that Obama would win because of his well-organized campaign. The fact that he is turning over the information gathered and his team is a huge help for Hillary's campaign. When it all breaks down, the victory goes to the candidate who can get the voters out to the polls.
ReplyDelete@Crystal Sage 9:24 PM
DeleteBack on topic. The reason that Obama won the Democratic nomination in 2008 is that he had a far superior ground campaign.
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Also he won because people really like him.
Of course he very likable, but he was also a Black man running for president. I thought it would never happen in the US. The combination of a great candidate and a superior campaign did it, but a great candidate (there have been many) cannot win without getting out his or her voters. Obama had that. Thank our stars that he did or we would be looking at President Palin (after McCain died under suspicious circumstances.)
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