Argumentative Essay: The New Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee’s candidate for President of the United States in 2016, ran in alignment with the DNC’s 2016 platform. Her focus was on improving the Affordable Care Act, expanding women’s rights, raising middle class incomes, and campaign finance reform. In response to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which enabled unlimited campaign finance contributions, Clinton guaranteed a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United. Clinton’s economic plan would have penalized corporations involved in moving jobs overseas by rescinding their tax benefits, incentivized profit sharing models for employees, environment and communities, placed an exit tax on corporations that moved their …show more content…

Not giving up too much in all situations, but just enough. Bernie Sanders needs some love and the American people need to see Hillary offering this love. A Bernie Sanders VP would be a consideration. At very least, some form of repair needs to take place in the public eye. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile are problems. These two may be have to be casualties that require special handling. The New Hillary conversion is not going to affect support from her base. They will love New Hillary even more. What she will gain are the millions of votes that went to Trump by those that would not have otherwise voted for him, simply because they “can’t stand Hillary.” She will also win over many on the fence - swing states votes, which will be covered under the Fourth Failure. The Third Failure is the Hillary Victory Fund. The HVF is not in alignment with the New Hillary. The HVF is structured to funnel large donations through the states and back to the campaign and to the DNC. It’s too risky as half the country views this as money laundering, which in fact it is by most standards. It also creates a rift between the states and the national campaign. The states expect money and they don’t get it. Morale is …show more content…

The Clinton Campaign underestimated the online game and were blind to Russian attempts to manipulate social media. They had only 50 engineers and developers from Google, Facebook and Twitter using the outdated Timshel/The Groundwork platform for organizing data, email, donor tracking and analytics. Many more computer systems engineers should have been brought in. A troll farm should have been established operating on social media, promoting the New Hillary. A qualified outside IT firm should have been contracted such as Milan based Hacking Team to work with the campaign to identify threats and to implement advanced strategies using behavioral and demographic targeting, geodemographic segmentation and value modes type tools; advertising and social engineering custom tailored for the needs of the campaign. Identified threats in the form of foreign ads on social media could be dealt with through blocking agreements with Facebook and Twitter. This I.T. strategy would operate within the limits of the

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