In the video below we explain the main two strategic errors that the Clinton team made. We also talk about the third reason they lost -- their frame of mind. Find out what their two big mistakes were and how their arrogance cost them this election:
Here is the Time magazine article I referenced in the video above.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 4)
1. There is only one reason: She was afraid of having the Liberal Media and left wing lunatics call her a "Racist" if she or her campaign asked tough questions of challenged the Color-fication Candidate!!!
Paul Sparcello at 1:00PM on May 9th 2008
2. Hey Hillary,
You and Bill should have got 900+ Democratic FBI files to go along with the 900+ Republican files that were illegally accessed.
You could have used that info to sway the Supers and it would have been the Bi-Partisan thing to do.
Post #1 correction: or challenged
Paul Sparcello at 1:08PM on May 9th 2008
3. 1. The media in love with Obama.
2. Any negative about Obama being played as racism.
3. The unthinking "Sherri Shepherd world is flat" black vote.
Davidg at 1:40PM on May 9th 2008
4. I agree, particularly with the final reason. The arrogance. Hillary always carried herself with a demeanor of, "entitlement." Many of her supporters seemingly had/have the same attitude. .
Now we have to deal with 30% of Hillary's supporters who say that they will vote for McCain because they didn't get their way. I wonder how many of the 30% are women.
Captain Negative at 1:40PM on May 9th 2008
5. I voted for Senator Hillary Clinton in our state caucus although I felt the amount of money her campaign was spending was obscene. Now, she is accusing Senator Barack Obama of outspending her in Pennsylvania, N.C. and Indiana. She can only blame herself for what is happening now. She has lost me because of her mean spiritedness and the damage she is doing to the Democrat Party. I hope Senator Barack Obama will be the nominee, as does several of my Republican out-of-state relatives, who, also, want to vote for him.
Catherine at 2:13PM on May 9th 2008
6. Okay I think I get it now.
On the days when Cenk finds something to read that he finds interesting, we get this. On the days he doesn't, we get moonwalking bears.
There's no way in hell he's getting paid to do this. There must be some other unspeakable service he's providing to someone.
bob at 2:21PM on May 9th 2008
7. The fat lady will not sing until the convention. Obama will not have sufficient delegates for a first ballot win. After the first ballot, the committed delegates are free to switch candidates. Then anything can happen. Hillary can beg, buy or steal sufficient delegates to win a second ballot or an outsider, Al Gore, can come in and win the nomination.
longwalker at 2:26PM on May 9th 2008
8. "Now we have to deal with 30% of Hillary's supporters who say that they will vote for McCain because they didn't get their way. I wonder how many of the 30% are women."
First of all, let me say that I'm neither an Obama or Clinton supporter. Having said this, if Clinton supporters are so tied up in their own sense of vindication that they would vote for McCain in spite of what's at stake, then I say good riddance to them.
Dave at 2:39PM on May 9th 2008
9. "First of all, let me say that I'm neither an Obama or Clinton supporter. Having said this, if Clinton supporters are so tied up in their own sense of vindication that they would vote for McCain in spite of what's at stake, then I say good riddance to them."
Either way some group was going to be unhappy and feel betrayed. This is the end result of the trick bag the party has been in since both candidates became viable. They can thank their emphasis on the celebration of diversity and special accommodations for special classes of people.
bob at 3:02PM on May 9th 2008
10. The three resons Hillary lost are "race, race and race." When 92% of blacks vote for a Marxist who happens to be black, then the term "informed voter" becomes an oxymoron!
But, I just LOVE it when they start devouring their own! I'm sure the republicans will welcome any former Hillary supporters into the fold. After all, THEY'RE running their OWN democrat this time.
URKiddinMee at 3:04PM on May 9th 2008
11. i agree that the clintons arrogance , and dismissal of obama is probably the biggest reason that beat them, or beat themselves....now that the writing is on the wall, they are still not willing to bow out gracefully and continue to split the party....i also feel that what people fear is race (i read alot of blogs), and the idea that a black man beat out the clinton machine, to them is mind boggling.....from the 1st time i heard this educated man speak, i felt he was the real deal....and as far as expierence-since when have so many of our presidents had expierence ????
there has never been a job discription for a president...he will surround himself with as many smart men and women he is alloted in his cabinet, as all the other presidents have done....and i hope and pray that the clinton for VP never comes to fruitation, he would have to be looking over his shoulder at all times, the corruption of the clinton machine must never be allowed in the white house again....hillary is a shrew, most distrustful person, and her elitist persona, always trying to align herself with us working people, angers me, i would like her to work 12 hours in an emergency department, always on your feet, having people call you a bitch because they do not get what they want, verbally and physically abused on any given shift, always understaffed, then she can say she has been part of the working class....i am a registered nurse, 66 yrs old and still working....also her arrogance and statements,as to her expierence and being ready on day one are offensive, anytime she is on the telly, i switch..... and i as a hispanic woman, am baffled by my rasa, giving the clintons their continued support-what have they done for the hispanics that live in the southwest, i really don't know what the allure is....
dottie moya at 3:15PM on May 9th 2008
12. 30% will not vote for Obama but for McCain. Right.
How many of the Hollywood snoots were going to move out of the USA if Bush won? How many of those Hollywood big mouths moved out of USA??? Zero
Talk is cheap, wait till November and see what happens. If the Republicans keep their money in their pockets, Obama will buy the election just as he probably has bought the Nomination. Money buys exposure which equals money buys elections
American is a wonderful country. Have a good paying job and work on your next job while being paid for working your present job. Hillary, Obama and McCain are getting paid good money for being US Senators, but hardly work. I have not seen even one complaint on dozens of blog sites about Hillary, Obama and McCain stealing their salaries while running for Nomination or President.
Was it not once upon time people running for another office than their own, had to quit the job they had to run for a higher office??????
How can any Democrat or Republican not think or say this pratice is wrong.
robert okane at 3:20PM on May 9th 2008
13. One thing to say to you. SHUT UP YOU MORON!
sam at 3:37PM on May 9th 2008
14. Captain Negative at 1:40PM on May 9th 2008
I think you will agree with me on this prediction:
"It's going to be one helluva acceptance speech. One that will make his speech at the previous convention seem bland"
M2D5 at 3:52PM on May 9th 2008
15. Dottiemoya, you are hateful and bitchy. How can you call Hillary a shrew and distrustful? Have you been asleep during the last several weeks when all of Obama's lies began to unfold. You evidently know nothing but what some idiot tells you or you pay attention to the news media which has given Hillary a hard time ever since she took the lead in the Democratic nomination. If you were paying attention, during all the early debates, Obama had no answers concerning the issues, but once he saw how well Hillary was doing, he decided to use all her answers for the issues, and because he can hypnotise his audience, you gullible people ate all the garbage he spit out of his mouth. He is a racist, and a very dishones person concerning very important matters. So woman, pay attention to the important matters, and quit mouthing off things you know nothing about.
Scary at 4:43PM on May 9th 2008