{"id":16703,"date":"2016-04-06T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2016-04-06T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:24:01","slug":"clinton-must-not-patronize-sanders-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"Clinton must not patronize Sanders voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/04\/hillary-clinton-has-had-enough-of-bernie-sanders-221495\">told Glenn Thrush<\/a>\u00a0last Friday:\u00a0\u201cThere is a persistent, organized effort to misrepresent my record, and I don\u2019t appreciate that, and I feel sorry for a lot of the young people who are fed this list of misrepresentations. &#8230; I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama. I rarely hear him say anything negative about George W. Bush, who I think wrecked our economy.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is very strongly in Clinton&#8217;s\u00a0interest to stop talking this\u00a0way. Indeed, she should adopt almost exactly the opposite position. There is room to her left on the ideological spectrum. Sanders voters are in that space. Many of them happen to be young, but it&#8217;s their beliefs that line them up with the Sanders campaign. Clinton\u00a0will need\u00a0their votes in November. They will be weighing whether to vote for her&#8211;or stay home. She must\u00a0communicate very clearly that she respects their positions, that they are the future of her party, that she has a different &#8220;theory of change&#8221; from theirs but is open to learning from them, and that the Democratic primary debate has been\u00a0dignified, substantive, and valuable.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she\u00a0is implies that they are naive and callow youth\u00a0who would vote for her if they hadn&#8217;t been misled about her personal contributions\u00a0by a cynical pol. It would be difficult to devise a message with more power to alienate a pivotal\u00a0group of potential supporters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/total-youth-votes-in-2016-primaries-and-caucuses\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Cumulative-Graph-March15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton told Glenn Thrush\u00a0last Friday:\u00a0\u201cThere is a persistent, organized effort to misrepresent my record, and I don\u2019t appreciate that, and I feel sorry for a lot of the young people who are fed this list of misrepresentations. &#8230; I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16712,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}