Tuesday, April 16, 2019

"Successful Political Campaigns Are Based on Themes and Not on Policies"

"And she has real accomplishments in Washington to boast of.  It may be that her own themes–her attack against a 'rigged system'–have gotten lost in the details of her policy proposals. She is not a thematic politician the way Buttigieg or Sanders is.  Or it may be that the controversy over her Native American ancestry has nullified the impact of her impressive up-from-the-bootstraps biography.  Or, finally,  it may be, as I've heard from other Democrats, that she sounds too 'professorial.'"

John Judis at Talking Points Memo writes that he is "not sure why [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren's campaign seems not to have taken off."

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