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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Hillary Clinton Is Explaining - And Losing
12:00 PM, Aug 13, 2015 • By SHOSHANA WEISSMANN
There's a saying in politics, "when you're explaining, you're losing." It's
applied a few ways, but it generally means that in situations in which
politicians have to explain away a scandal or gaffe, as they're explaining,
their supporters become somewhat dismayed or begin to question the candidate
, and potential supporters are turned off.
Hillary Clinton is explaining. And losing.
First, take Correct The Record. It is an outside group that works "in
coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC.” Its
stated purpose is to "defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks."
Then there's a part of the Clinton campaign's website, accompanied by a
Twitter account, called "The Briefing." It does much of the same - attacking
Clinton's opponents and putting out information supporting Clinton against
attacks.
No other campaign, that I'm aware of, has two attack dog arms. But then
again, no other candidate has as many scandals.
Yesterday, Clinton's campaign sent out an email, and posted the body of that
email in a blog post authored by her Communications Director.
It begins:
You might hear some news over the next few days about Hillary Clinton’s
emails. There’s a lot of misinformation, so bear with us; the truth matters
on this.
The uncomfortable, defensive tone that leaves the reader uneasy continues
through the post. It reads as though the campaign realizes how damning her
scandals are - particularly the new updates in her email scandal - and wants
to minimize the damage.
Campaigns are started to elect a candidate to office - not to minimize
damage from scandals or work to reduce shortcomings. Sometimes that
necessarily becomes the role of the campaign, and such a defensive role
takes away from the campaign's primary purpose.
As Hillary Clinton is campaigning, and explaining, her poll numbers and
favorability numbers are dropping. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders's numbers are
rising.
Only one of them has been explaining. And only one has been losing. | r****p
发帖数: 480 | 2 "the truth matters on this." - 我看到这句话就呕吐了，下面已经看不下去了 |
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