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发帖数: 6571 | 1 President Barack Obama suggested that Hillary Clinton’s hyper-progressive,
city-focused campaign strategy led to her defeat on Nov. 8, and has given
the GOP a chance to win political dominance for many years.
“One message that I do have for Democrats, is that a strategy that’s just
micro-targeting particular discrete groups in a Democratic coalition
sometimes will win you the election but it is not going to win you the broad
mandate you need,” a subdued Obama told reporters at a Nov. 20 press
conference in Lima, Peru, at the tail-end of his last international trip.
Obama acknowledged that Donald Trump’s win has put the nation’s politics
“up for grabs,” and could allow the GOP to win long-term dominance.
Certainly think it’s true that politics in America right now are a
little bit up for grabs. That some of the old alignments in both parties,
Democrat and Republican, are being reshaped. And although the results of
this election involved some of the specifics of the candidates and aren’t
going to be duplicated in every subsequent election, Democrats do have to do
some thinking about how do we make sure that the message we have is
received effectively and results in winning elections.
That’s a huge admission for Obama. He has repeatedly argued that Trump and
his supporters are far outside the mainstream of what Democrats paint as an
electorate split into discrete and diverse ethnic, sexual and civic
minorities.
On Nov. 8, Trump won at least 8 percent of the African-American vote and at
least 29 percent of the Latino vote, besting the 2012 performance of
establishment candidate Gov. Mitt Romney. Trump’s new pro-American policies
include trade and labor rules that help ordinary Americans instead of
global businesses and their Wall Street investors.
Since Clinton’s defeat on Nov. 8, Democratic campaign staffers and
reporters have noted that Clinton and her campaign manager, Robbie Mook,
disregarded lower-status Democratic voters, such as traditional Democratic
voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Instead, the campaign relied
on divisive social controversies to seek record turnout among the Democrats
’ urban voters, including professional women, blacks, Latinos, immigrants
and gays.
For example, on Sept. 9, Clinton told a gay fundraiser that:
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’
s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist,
sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it … Now some of
those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
Clinton’s social-issue strategy did increase turnout by her urban voters in
Florida and many other states. But Trump’s economic pitch generated ever
greater turnout in traditional GOP districts and in the disregarded
midwestern states that formed the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.”
In his press conference comments, Obama did not mention Clinton even once.
He spoke in his usual passive-aggressive style, during which he does not
mention the person he is criticizing while he touts his preferred policy.
Ultimately the more we can talk about what we have in common as a nation
and speak to a broad set of values, a vision that speaks to everybody, and
not just one group at a time, the better off we’re going to be. I think
that’s part of the reason why I was able to get elected twice, is that I
always tried to make sure that, not only in proposals but also in messages,
that I was speaking to everybody.
Obama also claimed that he won his campaigns because he pushed a broad
economic message.“When you look at the proposals I put forward, they garner
majority support,” Obama claimed.
The majority believes in raising the minimum wage. The majority
believes in common-sense gun safety rules. The majority believes in
investing to rebuild our infrastructure and create jobs. The majority
believes in making sure that people aren’t going bankrupt when they get
sick. The majority agrees with all the individual components of Obamacare.
However Obama did not mention his frequent use of narrow social-issues
appeals to galvanize parts of the Democratic coalition. Those narrow social
appeals included his support for changing marriage rules to allow single-sex
couples, exempting most illegals from immigration enforcement, sharply
criticizing urban police forces, and spending huge sums to subsidize solar
energy. In 2016, for example, he tried to spike support among gays by
demanding that the nation’s K-12 school bathrooms be opened to both sexes.
Obama also argued that Democrats must broaden their appeal if they want to
win future elections, likely including a 2020 campaign against Trump.
Although the results of this election involved some of the specifics of
the candidates and aren’t going to be duplicated in every subsequent
election, Democrats do have to do some thinking about how do we make sure
that the message we have is received effectively and results in winning
elections. This is something that I have been wrestling throughout my
presidency…
Doing better involves us working at the grassroots, not ceding territory
, going out into areas where right now we may not stand a chance of actually
winning, but we’re building up a cadre of young talent, we’re making
arguments, we’re persuading, we’re talking about the things that matter to
ordinary people day-to-day, and trying to avoid some of the constant
distractions that fill up people’s Twitter accounts , and if we do that,
then I’m confident that we’ll be back on track.
Obama also suggested he may try to lead the Democratic Party’s campaign
against Trump in the years up to 2020. “I want to be respectful of the
office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his
platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance,”
Obama said.
But he added, “as an American citizen who cares deeply about our country,
if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some
legislative proposal but go to core questions about our values and our
ideals, and if I think that it is necessary or helpful for me to defend
those ideals, I’ll examine it when it comes.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/21/obama-blames-clinton-strategy/ | r**********f
发帖数: 2808 | 2 Obama considers it an insult to his legacy if you don't vote for Hillary.
Well, I insulted his legacy and I feel so good about it. | g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 3 奥巴马又不是今天才来美国的，早干嘛去了？提过这方面的建议吗？如果提过，现在肯
定会拿出来说。 |
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