The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[myboynoah]

Wesleyan Media Project shares lessons, analysis from 2016 election cycle
<http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/blo...udy-published/>




Sanders aired more ads in the Primary than Trump did during the entire campaign. Crazy.

That was a lot of effort for them to finally realize that Hillary isn't likable.

[Pelado]

That was a lot of effort for them to finally realize that Hillary isn't likable.

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[myboynoah]

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I'm a plagiarizer. I admit it. But it seemed appropriate.

[Goatnapper'96]

Wesleyan Media Project shares lessons, analysis from 2016 election cycle
<http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/blo...udy-published/>




Sanders aired more ads in the Primary than Trump did during the entire campaign. Crazy.

Is Trump the luckiest candidate ever or brilliant?

I just don't think anybody is ever that brilliant and clearly Hillary Clinton was the worst Presidential Candidate in history, so these things are very complex but Trump's communication strategy was brilliant. In the end we can rage, and I figure the liberals will, about Donald Trump. But the issue is us. The Don knew us very well and us is not to awe inspiring. We are becoming dumber and institutions are losing their legitimacy at an alarming rate. I think Donald Trump is less a pied piper than a brilliant opportunist. I won't go so far as to say he is a reflection of the American people but what he projected himself to be connected and was surprisingly effective. The reality is this phenomenon has rendered the media, polling and so much of what goes into our political sausage obsolete and we won't know until the results come in in 2020 who is right - in the eyes of the people. The damage being done to our institutions and social fabrics we can opine about but I am not sure he or any other politicians care as much about that as they do enacting their agenda - the damage Trump is doing there is only "unprecedented" because the press dislikes him personally and has a liberal bent and because with each successive administration our institutions get further damaged so there is the opportunity to exploit it and go even further out into "unprecedented" land.

[Uncle Ted]

Study: Hillary Clinton's election loss likely due in part to poorly run campaign, advertising

A new study conducted by the Wesleyan Media Project found that ineffective advertising, including messages they claim were "devoid of policy discussions," likely played a role in Hillary Clinton's 2016 election loss to Donald Trump.


New research has found that Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential election may have been related to her campaign's ineffective use of advertising.


According to a news release, the Wesleyan Media Project study concluded that "Clinton's unexpected losses came in states in which she failed to air ads until the last week."

Graphs of TV ads in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania show late-term spikes by Clinton's campaign which were much more pronounced than those in favor of Trump.


The release also says the paper determined that "Clinton's message was devoid of policy discussions in a way not seen in the previous four presidential contests."


The team analyzed the contents of advertising during the presidential races dating back to 2000; compared to her fellow Republican and Democratic candidates, Clinton appeared to spend the most time on personal issues and the least amount of time on policy.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...sing/21880086/

Damn those Russians... they hacked Clinton's campaign advertising!

[Jeff Lebowski]

There you go, Uncle Ted. That's right in your wheelhouse.

[Uncle Ted]

The dems were also having secret meetings with the Ruskies... who can you trust besides the Libertarians?

Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he warns against 'hysteria'

Hillary Clinton’s team members met with the Russian ambassador during the election as well as Donald Trump’s, the Kremlin spokesman has alleged, as he set out to dismiss the “hysteria” surrounding Mr Trump’s links to Russia.


The house intelligence committee will hold its first session on Russia on March 20, with the heads of the FBI, national security agency and CIA expected to appear, plus previous intelligence chiefs.


But Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that America was “self-humiliating” in insisting that Russia hacked its election.
[...]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...lin-spokesman/

[wuapinmon]

Tom Price is such a stooge. "It's about giving people choices." He even talked about buying across state lines when that's not even in the AHCA. I want to kick that dude in the nuts.

[Uncle Ted]

Hmm... this could be interesting:

Embedded Tweet

Before Drumpf was the GOP nominee? It makes one wonder if someone was expecting Drumpf (or the GOP in general) to lose.

[YOhio]

Sounds like a UU guy.

. Though he would not divulge his real name or corroborate his claim, MicroChip said he is a freelance mobile software developer in his early thirties and lives in Utah. In a conversation over the gaming chat platform Discord, MicroChip, who speaks unaccented, idiomatic American English, said he guards his identity so closely for two reasons: first, because he fears losing contract work due to his beliefs, and second, because of what he calls an “uninformed” discourse in the media and Washington around Russian influence and botting.

“I feel like I'm a scientist showing electricity to natives that have been convinced electricity is created by Satan, so they murder the scientist,” he said.

Indeed, in a national atmosphere charged by unproven accusations about a massive network of Russian social media influence, the story of how MicroChip helped build the most notorious pro-Trump Twitter network seems almost mundane, less a technologically daunting intelligence operation than a clever patchworking of tools nearly any computer-literate person could manage. It also suggests that some of the current Russian Trumpbot hysteria may be, well, a hysteria.

“It’s all us, not Russians,” MicroChip said. “And we’re not going to stop.”

MicroChip claims he was a longtime “staunch liberal” who turned to Twitter in the aftermath of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and “found out that I didn’t like what was going on. So I redpilled myself.” Through Twitter, he found a network of other people who thought liberal politicians had blindly acceded to PC culture, and who had found a champion in Donald Trump. In his early days on the platform, MicroChip said, he started “testing,” dabbling in anti-PC tags like #Rapefugees and seeing what went viral. His experience as a mobile developer had exposed him to the Twitter API, and a conversation with a blogger who ran social media bots convinced him he could automate the Twitter trending process.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephberns...0DR#.cmRL4qexV

[Uncle Ted]

Sounds like a UU guy.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephberns...0DR#.cmRL4qexV

It figures that those Utah people were the "Russians". .. what a bunch of commies


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[Uncle Ted]

McMullin owes nearly $670,000 for his failed presidential bid

Evan McMullin ran a long-shot — and ultimately failed — campaign last year to deny Donald Trump enough Electoral College votes to keep him from the presidency, but now the Utah native faces a hefty bill that will be challenging to pay off and could hamper efforts to enter the political arena again.


McMullin, who jumped into the presidential race a few months before Election Day, still owes some $670,000 to vendors who helped his campaign, including more than half a million dollars to a law firm.
[...]

http://www.sltrib.com/home/5191365-1...670000-for-his

Y'all that voted for McMuffin might want to open your wallet help your boy pay his legal bills... I don't think those lawyers will let him off easy.

[All-American]

Chaffetz won't run in 2018.

[BlueK]

Chaffetz won't run in 2018.

has he said why?

[Uncle Ted]

has he said why?

He has mentioned that he would like to run for governor in 2020... Already has the domain name:

http://JasonForGovernor.com