Discussion: After NH Loss, Clinton Camp Blasts Out Memo Arguing 'March Matters'

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“Blasted”… oh the Luntz-like wording sometimes.


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Everything in that memo was just stating facts. so what?

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Blasted implies they were firing shots.

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I guess uppity women blast out memos.

Ladylike creatures “share” memos.

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Really, we need other states leading the primaries. just watching the whiteness of the voting lines and the speech audiences make my irish pale blush.

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It also means that she has to win.

Not every has to be a crush, but when you say ‘March matters’, they better mean it.

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What’s interesting is that she’s picked up just as many delegates as Sanders has so far from New Hampshire. 13 each with 6 outstanding. She definitely knows how to play to win this time.

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Clinton’s campaign manager is Bobby Mook? How did I miss that?

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Except the memo never uses that phrase. The closest he comes is one paragraph is titled “Why March Matters So Much”, and why technically you can parse that phrase and pull out “March Matters” from the center, its not in fact what he said. He merely lays down the math of why she is strongly favored to win in basically every state going forward.

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Uh, as a professional English major, I gotta say that “March Matters” pretty much means that “March Matters”. It doesn’t even rise to the level of the question of "It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is."

@inversion

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Nevada and South Carolina matter too.

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Good catch.

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I read some where about how the “out siders won” I hate to say this but the only outsider that won tonight was Donald the diva. Sanders is a carrer politician it showed tonight. For now anyway.

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Well, to be fair, the subject of the memo is also “March Matters”

ETA: and by “subject” I mean “subject line” or “title”

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The point is that Nevada and South Carolina are next,not March.

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Oh, come on Emiliano. Les would have written that about a man as well as a woman.

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“Iowa and New Hampshire Don’t Matter!”

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[Here][1], Stephen:

Sanders won women by 53-46 percent, as well as prevailing far more widely among men, 65-34 percent. Sixty-nine percent of women under 45 backed Sanders (including 82 percent of those under 30 women), while Clinton won women 45 and older by 56-43 percent.
Among all voters under age 30, Sanders beat Clinton by a huge 84-15 percent margin, another result similar to Iowa.

Between you and me, I’m not exactly sure how Clinton can win if she can’t carry Democratic white women in a white state. She is a stronger candidate that Sanders in a general election? Based on what?
@ProfessorPoopypants
[1]: http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/voted-live-hampshire-primary-exit-poll-analysis/story?id=36805930

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““The reason is simple: while important, the first four states represent
just 4% of the delegates needed to secure the nomination; the 28 states
that vote (or caucus) in March will award 56% of the delegates needed to
win,” the memo said.”

Well, all this is true. However, Bernie just won NH by a 20% margin. That is not nothing. Then there’s this statement:

“the March states better reflect the true diversity of the Democratic Party and the nation.”’

I’m not sure it helps her to have her campaign call NH “unrepresentive” - she’s sort of dumping on the entire Northeast.

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