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originally posted by: carewemust
One of Hillary's sore-loser MSM comrades (MSNBC) swears that they've found a connection between Wiki-leaks, Cambridge, Trump, Facebook, and Russian BOTS. I couldn't follow their reasoning for more than 45 seconds. MSNBC is run by nutjobs.
McAuliffe’s database was largely a flop, and only under his successor Howard Dean did the party realize its goal of developing a workable national voter file that presidential candidates and state parties could use. But it quickly became evident that a national party was a poor custodian of such an asset. A list of nearly 170 million adults—larger than nearly all commercial databases except for those maintained by credit-rating agencies—required computing power and engineering expertise that could never be satisfied by party budgets that had been reined by new campaign-finance laws. Even once a list had been developed, those same regulations limited a party’s ability to share its resource with its allies.
On the Democratic side, some of those allies set out to develop their own voter file, outside the Federal Election Commission’s oversight. In 2006, former Clinton aides Laura Quinn and Harold Ickes—among a cadre of old party hands suspicious of Dean and his “50-state strategy”—raised $5 million from private investors, including George Soros, to build a private data warehouse with records for the entire voting-age population. Called Catalist, the theoretically for-profit company imagined itself as a public utility, with less interest in returning a profit to its investors than becoming an indispensable tactical resource for the American left.
It was founded in 2006 by Harold M. Ickes with seed money from George Soros. It specializes in microtargeting for Democratic political campaigns.[2] The company was founded as Data Warehouse, LLC.[3]
Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 240 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
This precisely, plus not a few people here and abroad consider her both a wall st shill and war monger. Finally, the Dems embrace of the more extreme and dogmatic elements of identity politics didn't just turn off many conservatives or moderates, it turned off and continues to turn off a number of leftists.
originally posted by: amazing
a reply to: carewemust
Or ...the left saw her rig the primaries and got sick of her antics and saw that she was just republican light. So they either didnt' vote or voted Green party. Trump on the other hand, won his primary fair and square and said all the things to excite his right wing base. That's why she lost.
Same, I am an independent progressive, in some ways a traditional leftist. It's the corporate democrats who both own the party and I have a problem with. They are basically Republican light. Hillary is a great example of one of them.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
This precisely, plus not a few people here and abroad consider her both a wall st shill and war monger. Finally, the Dems embrace of the more extreme and dogmatic elements of identity politics didn't just turn off many conservatives or moderates, it turned off and continues to turn off a number of leftists.
originally posted by: amazing
a reply to: carewemust
Or ...the left saw her rig the primaries and got sick of her antics and saw that she was just republican light. So they either didnt' vote or voted Green party. Trump on the other hand, won his primary fair and square and said all the things to excite his right wing base. That's why she lost.
I'm independent, but I don't have a problem with real leftists/liberals or progressives. it's the corporate democrats that I have a problem with. .
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
Same, I am an independent progressive, in some ways a traditional leftist. It's the corporate democrats who both own the party and I have a problem with. They are basically Republican light. Hillary is a great example of one of them.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
This precisely, plus not a few people here and abroad consider her both a wall st shill and war monger. Finally, the Dems embrace of the more extreme and dogmatic elements of identity politics didn't just turn off many conservatives or moderates, it turned off and continues to turn off a number of leftists.
originally posted by: amazing
a reply to: carewemust
Or ...the left saw her rig the primaries and got sick of her antics and saw that she was just republican light. So they either didnt' vote or voted Green party. Trump on the other hand, won his primary fair and square and said all the things to excite his right wing base. That's why she lost.
I'm independent, but I don't have a problem with real leftists/liberals or progressives. it's the corporate democrats that I have a problem with. .
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Metallicus
So how does she explain voters like myself who did not, would not, vote for Trump? ...and I decided to never vote for her years ago. About the same time I decided to never vote for her husband.