A new study by the Wesleyan Media Project has found that the 2016 presidential campaign run by Hillary Clinton is without a doubt one of the worst-run political operations in years. Interestingly, the directors of the study dispute the argument that “advertising doesn’t matter” in elections. Clinton’s failure to advertise in certain key states, they argue, was the biggest reason for her defeat by Donald Trump. The study also backs the view that Clinton’s focus on identity politics and emphasis on condemning her opposition contributed to a campaign message devoid of substance with no clear message on policy. Published in The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, the study found that one candidate in particular, Hillary Clinton, “almost ignored discussions of policy.” The study states the lack of advertising effectiveness “may owe to the unusual nature of the presidential campaign with one nonconventional candidate and the other using an unconventional message strategy.” Clinton, who was widely predicted to win by the mainstream media, suffered unexpected losses in states where she failed to air ads until the final week before the polls. In contrast, Trump advertised in these states (Wisconsin and Michigan) for weeks before he won.
Remember in 2008 when people were voting for 'hope and change'? They were voting against her.
Asher Sanchez
losers lose and winners win
that's life
Adrian Morgan
Fuckin hell, isn't ian miles cheong is that asian SJW fuckwad?
Joshua Powell
No shit
> threaten WW3 with a nuclear power REPEATEDLY in the belief it will make you popular with the electorate?
Fucking hell, the fact Trump said he was considering banning abortions in the election and yet more white women voted him in, over the first woman prez illustrates how fucking dumb Hillary Clinton was in her retarded strategy of threatening nuclear war over alledged Russian hacking
What a stupid cunt. So much for ivy leage educations
Ayden Ross
Did Obongo run the worst two-term presidency in years? How does anyone lose this many seats? Bush couldn't have lost this many trying his hardest
Tyler Murphy
The only people who voted for Trump are rural and suburban retards.
City people all voted for Hillary.
Xavier Gutierrez
Do you think she was ever even meant to win? Is Don (((/theirguy/)))
Angel Price
City folks wanted nuked first!
Isaac Lopez
In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and shit tends to smell bad.
Easton Wright
Calling a large percentage of people retards. Great work leaf. I hope the Dems go with your view.
Cameron Davis
now you're starting to catch on
Jaxon Lopez
What about when all the losers team up on you in 1914 and you still almost win but they get somewhat lucky/fortunate and manage to win?
Carson Powell
56% faggot
Easton Cox
>The study also backs the view that Clinton’s focus on identity politics and emphasis on condemning her opposition contributed to a campaign message devoid of substance with no clear message on policy.
liberals thought they were invincible. Turns out americans aren't held hostage by them as much as they thought they would be. The silent majority have ousted their bullies.
Wyatt Williams
# Kushner is their guy Bannon is our guy
Trump is a narcissist who could go either way
That's why (((they))) got rid of Flynn (good oul Irish name) and are gunning for O'Conway and Mc'Bannon
Another leaf who has no idea where the wealth that makes his ridiculous urban lifestyle possible comes from.
Jace Robinson
>needing to invest another millions of dollars into a study just to tell the obvious
They are still losing it seems.
Cameron Gonzalez
He switched sides as soon as he realized how insane liberals are.
Ayden Phillips
Hillary let's millennials shape her race. Put too much weight in celebrity and media endorsements. Misjudged American attitudes towards refugees and Islam, no we don't have a hard on for them like the dems supposed.
Camden Nguyen
What the fuck? Someone payed for this survey. They payed money to find out what everyone has already known and has stated repeatedly about the campaign.
Logan Thompson
>By Ian Miles Cheong Why are people suddenly pretending Ching Cheong is our guy? The man has no integrity and no spine.
Jason Cook
Her second biggest mistake next to just not being very likeable was assuming people would care about facts or truth over someone going 'YEAH I'LL MAKE IT ALL AWESOME AGAIN DON'T WORRY HOW I'LL DO IT'
Joshua Miller
How many of these were up for election during his two terms? The US are a big country (for me) so the plain number doesn't mean anything. I expect it to be a bloodbath, but how much?
>Obama’s record for losses, at least through the 2014 midterms, is historically bad having overseen two horrible midterm elections for Democrats. Overall, Sabato wrote, Democrats during Obama’s presidency lost 11 governorships, 13 U.S. Senate seats, 69 House seats, and 913 state legislative seats and 30 state legislative chambers. (Our analysis of legislative seats is off from Sabato’s by three. The small discrepancy is likely due to run-offs and recounts.)
>The shedding of U.S. House seats, state legislative seats and statehouse control is at least twice the average two-term losses from Truman through George W. Bush, Sabato said.
> at least twice the average two-term losses from Truman through George W. Bush > at least twice the average two-term losses from Truman through George W. Bush > at least twice the average two-term losses from Truman through George W. Bush
Jason Ortiz
>pokemon go to the polls!
Her campaign was managed by reddit millennials
Camden Williams
How fucking pilled out is she to lul at her own powerpoint effect?
Sad
She looks like she's never been in a room like that before
>almost 50% of all campaign ads and nearly 100% of outside ads were personal attacks on Trump
Nice to have numbers for this. Turns out doing nothing but Tourettes-ing 'racist' and 'literal Hitler' for months doesn't win elections.
Jose Wright
That's what you get for hiring the head of a pedophilia sect to run your campaign. Hers was the campaign of child molesters, war criminals, Satanists, and liberals. The worst of society supporting the worst of society.
Jace Martin
>losers lose and winners win >that's life
Thomas Sullivan
Is this the neonazi flipflopper who's like banana, white on inside yellow or outside or is he not?
Michael Green
Does anyone happen to recall what the context of OP's photograph was taken in? Wtf is she doing? Was this a tour of the appalling conditions in which the common people live? Fuck is going on?
Jason Collins
...
Eli Price
That's actually interesting
It's breakdown of ads.
Just so you understand what those things mean:
Positive - talk about our candidate Negative - talk about other candidate being the devil Contrast - look, the other candidate is shit, ours is great because
Pty/group = PAC's and party sponsored ads, candidate = campaign sponsored ads.
Note the insanity of Dem pty/group
Lincoln Brown
Look below
Jonathan Price
No policy discussion in Clinton's ads, Trump packs policy almost everywhere in contrast ads(which are the best for arguing for policy from marketing standpoint).
I didn't knew she was this bad. Hilldog campaign was visibly shitty but the breakdown really makes it look horrible.
Adam White
In total, over 60 percent of ads supporting Clinton were solely about candidate characteristics, while only about 25 percent were focused on policy. This is a huge difference from Trump’s advertising, over 70 percent of which was focused on policy, and it is a huge difference from every other presidential campaign for which we have comparable data (Figure 9).
In a typical campaign, ads that focus on candidate character have comprised less than 20 percent of total ad airings, and in some years like 2000, there were hardly any ads that focused on the candidates’ character.
Formating screwed because of pdf copypasting
Seriously look at this shit.
Nolan Sullivan
Also note McCain's low energy campaign.
Michael White
Is that the new shareblue slogan? Ive been seeing that in every thread
No, trump is not their guy. They dont paint a target on their guys back. They dont call their guy a racist sexist russian spy.
Nathan Harris
Over eight years? Every elected offlcial in the country would've been up for election at least once. Those numbers are godawful, they amount to collapse, essentially. To compare to the UK, the Democrats are currently in the position that your Labor party seems to be heading towards, gettig elected in big cities but irrelevant everywhere else.
William Bennett
They also played the game knowing they had stacked the deck. Wiretaps, Media in back pocket, paid internet trolls, etc...
Owen Jenkins
>being THIS new.
Jackson Hernandez
very interesting, thank you based Sup Forumsack
Caleb Sanders
This is actually pretty incredible. While Trump was staying on topic and being presidential from the very beginning, talking about what his side stands for, shldawg was just talking trash and being a salty bitch
Now. Imagine if we actually gave HER the nuclear codes
Carter Adams
interesting. Goes to show that the Dems try to destroy anyone who poses a real threat to them.
Dylan Sanchez
I think this sums it up the best
In stark contrast to any prior presidential cycle for which we have Kantar Media/CMAG data, the Clinton campaign overwhelmingly chose to focus on Trump’s personality and fitness for office (in a sense, doubling down on the news media’s focus), leaving very little room for discussion in advertising of the reasons why Clinton herself was the better choice.
Sebastian Hughes
B-but how did she lose? She called Trump names and everything!!
Caleb Lewis
>Clinton campaign overwhelmingly chose to focus on Trump’s personality and >fitness for office
hahaha, and then clinton fainted and got pneomonia
sucks to be her
Matthew Edwards
Oh, I can imagine.
Michael Thomas
>By Ian Miles Cheong what the shit
Grayson White
I'm not gonna lie, former Trump supporter here.
Asher Green
I tried watching the first one, could only make it about a third of the way through due to cringing too hard
James Evans
Fucking nice
Angel Brown
These CIA Meme Engineers really need to up their game.
