Get In Front of Her Spin
A suggestion to the Obama camp:
Mrs. Clinton’s about to win West Virginia by a substantial margin. No one, including Barack himself, expected otherwise. It’s not a big state and it’s not a demographically diverse state, but it’s what she’ll do with the win that’s going to matter.
You’ve got to deflate her spin balloon before she gets the chance to blow it up. You’ve got to point out that she’ll try to use this modest victory to convince the super-delegates that only she can win the general. You’ve got to point out that she’ll try to present what happened today as a microcosm of what will happen in November. You’ve got to point out that, although she may not use terms that are as overtly racial as she did last week, a lot of what she’s going to say in both her victory speech tonight and her follow up remarks are going to be code words for the same divisive and regressive language she’s used previously.
And you’ve got to point out that the substance of what she’s presenting and the manner in which she’s presenting it are wrong.
The potency of her spin becomes severely diluted if you’re out in force and out in front of it. It doesn’t take Amarillo Slim to know how she’s going to play this hand. As previously pointed out in the post below, you don’t have nationally revered talk radio hosts to do the work for you, so you have to do it yourselves.
Immediately.
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