It feels as if Clinton has been around for decades, similar to how long Perry Ellis has been on the Kansas Men’s Basketball team. With her strong political resume strengths are easy to spot. She is an excellent public speaker, appeals to women, and strong support from many political figures. She’s a true fighter for the people, which is evident in the fact that she has gone thru two presidential elections to achieve the throne of the United States. She continues to share her political wealth even after the recent loss, which many refer to her as a scrapper for life.
Weaknesses
She has had her fair share of
distrust displayed by her email scandal as well as being the wife of Bill
Clinton, who has been the bearer if mistrust, which associates her
automatically. Throughout the campaign her charisma has lacked and isn’t a big
risk taker like her opponent, Mr. Trump. As holding secretary of state these
past 8 years many would agree there hasn’t been much change from her as there should
have been or that was promised during her time, which makes her lose appeal to
the people.
Opportunities
An easy one, first women
president, which would have made history. Her husband would be a great advisor
from his experience as President. When trying to appeal to blue collar voters
she has the upper hand since top business men don’t really appeal to them. Her
image, according to some, may be seen as better when compared to Trump, which
some think she is more nurturing and likeable.
Threats
Obviously, her past decisions,
such as the scandal would hugely affect her campaign. Bernie Sanders was a big
threat, since she seemed overly confident on beating him out. The rise of Trump
caught her party off-guard, which I think was due to her overconfidence she’d
beat out a businessman with no political experience, which definitely wasn’t the
case.
Issues
From what I’ve heard and read,
there are a wide variety of issues Hillary holds strong positions with. Her top
three issues focused on were education, immigration, and healthcare. I strongly
believe these are very important, but others could have gained more attention
such as, women’s right, equal rights, and gun laws. As violence is on the rise
involving guns, the time is now to control this will stronger enforcement. As Obama
left office equal rights were on the up and up, which needs to continue and not
back track since it took years to get where we are now. I feel very strong
about these two issues as they affect me personally. I’d even add education in
there as it is the root of our people and what America needs to succeed.
Team Clinton
Robby has
been with Clinton since the 2008 campaign. He has worked closely with Vermont
democrats early in his career, which started at age 14. He was largely involved
in the primary campaigns in 2008 as ground operations to directly contact
voters.
Joel Benenson-Chief strategist and
pollster
Joel worked
with the Bill Clinton and Obama campaign as well. A former beer distributor and
journalist. He used polling and voter data to assess the electorate.
Amanda Renteria-Political director
Amanda
worked with constituency groups to organize involvement with the Clinton
Campaign. Prior, she worked for Goldman Sachs, a consultant for the city of San
Jose, and was a high school math teacher. She was a legislative aid in 2004 for
a Democrat of California.
I believe these three showed
values Clinton shared among them. Each member has an impressive resume of high
intelligence and strong political experience, which is needed for Clintons
political backbone. None of them have had downfalls along their careers to put
her campaign in harms way, which makes for a team to carry her to victory.
My blog is about Donald Trump, so it is nice to read a different perspective on a different candidate. I thought it was really important that you mentioned how she has not changed. A lot of voters believed that Hillary was like every other politician. This was highlighted as a weakness all through the election season. It is super interesting that you mentioned she is a fighter for the people. I think it is important that the American people understand that Hillary always puts her country first. Even with her email scandal, she would never knowingly put American lives in danger. Everyone makes mistakes and this email scandal should not come to define her as a politician.
ReplyDeleteI think overall that you did a very good job on getting the key points across. Although in terms of issues, I did not see the factor of Clinton's reliability and how this was a major factor in turning off a percentage of Americans that ended up either not voting or ended up voting from Trump. I felt that this was one of the major factors that she underestimated coming into play on Election Day.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that Hillary’s best asset is her political background. Her experience is probably what attracted many of the undecided and/or indifferent voters to her. It’s interesting too that you brought up how long it has been without a Clinton holding office. They truly became a power-couple over the years that dominated the political atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that Bill’s past did not help her public image; however the fact that she was a former First Lady undoubtedly did. Whether people liked her or Bill’s decisions in office or not, she still had that first-hand experience with how the Executive Branch works.
With that, I think Bill falls more under the opportunities category; or just not a weakness at all because her experience should outweigh her husband's presidency. Overall though, good analysis!
I do agree that the clinton campaign underestimated the success of the trump campaign, this really hurt her chance of beating him. The outsider politician was appealing to many and that was not accounted for in the clinton campaign. Looking back at the campaign I wonder what different choices the campaign team would make to combat the threat of the trump campaign, overall I really enjoyed your take.
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