Discussion: The Clever Way Hillary Clinton Will Woo Young Voters

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Hmmmm…

The article says, “By Hillary Clinton Published July 14, 2015” yet at the conclusion of the article it appears Amanda Marcotte was the author.

What’s up with that?

~OGD~

@AmandaMarcotte

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I see this:

ByAMANDA MARCOTTEPublishedJULY 14, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT

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I do too, though to be fair, it doesn’t read like her stuff that is usually posted on TPM. No broad strokes accusing men of evil doings.

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Uh, no. Young voters aren’t going to care.

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All hours where a person is ‘on-call’ but not working should be subject to half-wages. If companies are going to pull that crap, then they need to pay for it. Workers should not have to wonder or worry if they are going to be called in or not.

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She better step up her game. She is so fucking boring. She gave a 45 minute speech yesterday all in a drone monotone voice. God, I felt like I was in school in a boring class. She’s so schoolmarmish!!

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How does she plan to do this if she needs 67 votes in the Senate to get anything done. I am tired of these promises that lack any sort of legislative strategy that deals with the reality of these times. She actually had a good record in the Senate for reaching across the aisle, but I am not sure how many primary voters consider that a virtue these days.

As for the traditional union base, its leadership, especially those of government worker unions, is ridiculously out of touch with voters. I would venture that Scott Walker is so popular with WI voters because most are sick of supporting guaranteed pensions while schools and services get cut back. Union leadership’s complete lack of concern for non-union workers was colorfully demonstrated when, when L.A. passed its $15/minimum wage, they insisted on a clause exempting collectively bargained wages from the minimum wage. Remember also that it was union members who formed the bulk of Reagan Democrats.

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There you have it. We’re all fucked.

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When she’s inaugurated, she’ll have a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate. And the GOP majority in the House will probably have been cut by 2/3rds.

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Hillary Clinton offers sophisticated analyses of the problem, but her solutions are marginal, at best. Here is a plain and clear analysis by Warren Buffett, one of our most astute business persons. This is what is needed to galvanize the American voter:

“There is an American nightmare alongside the American Dream, where the bottom 20 percent of households have an income of $21,000 or less. America can do better than that. We can raise the minimum wage, but I think the Earned Income Tax Credit is by far the most useful tool to really minimize poverty in this country and to reward work. It does not interfere with the market system. With that supplemental income, people can feel good about what they do in life, and that means the dignity of a reasonable job

“The aggregate worth of the Forbes 400 has gone up by 2,300 percent since 1982, while the income of the bottom twenty percent has increased one percent per year. I would like to hear what any candidate feels about that and what they would do about it. It’s got to be a big issue.”

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Walker’s screwing of Wisconsin teachers is proof of something Bertrand Russell wrote decades ago. To paraphrase, if enough people wanted their own happiness more than they want other people’s unhappiness, the world would be paradise in a generation.

Democrats need a leader to inspire people to fight for their own better futures. I thought Obama would be that leader more that Hillary would at the time, and Obama has been sort of a let down.

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Totally agree. Dems should run on raising the EITC and spend the next year explaining how it can help average Americans. It’s a pretty easy program to understand and Republicans can’t bash it as easily as hurting businesses as they can with raising the minimum wage. In fact, Republicans are generally in favor of the EITC so it’ll be fun to watch them suddenly turn against it if Dems speak out in favor of raising it.

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Hillary is just warming up. Criticizing her for not saying enough or not having the best plan yet is just being impatient and without faith.
She will never be the do-all end-all because the perfect candidate doesn’t exist, sound familiar?
Barack’s achievements are near monumental but he gets ragged right her on this thread that isn’t about him because he didn’t do enough.
Basically, it’s real tough for a Dem president out there.

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