Warren had a lead and fumbled it pretty bad is my point. She's not the only one, Biden took a hard tumble. I don't know how she gets less than half the votes Klobuchar did in New Hampshire, who was barely even talked about least year, without some sort of failing of her campaign. Maybe New Hampshire was just feeling the Klob, but it tells me there's a pretty big issue on her messaging getting through. Or voters just don't like her that much, I guess that's also an option, but it's not one I'd like to entertain because I'd think a candidate as solid as Warren should be doing better than she is.
The NH exit polls had people split saying she was too liberal or not liberal enough with just 7% saying she was just right. Not entirely sure how you can avoid something like that. It's a mind blowing stat for sure.
The only mistake Warren really made was launching M4A plan and it not being Sanders plan, during a time when the moderate candidates were going all in on attacking M4A. Not only did Warren start to drift around that time, but overall support for the concept of M4A did with it. The fact that she couldn't avoid being targeted by Pete and Amy at every turn probably had a bigger effect on her than any change in strategy she consciously made.
I'm still waiting on the actual identifiable actions her campaign has taken that have resulted in a positive outcome for her to be listed as opposed to trying to shift the topic onto bernie in 16 or just tell people they dont know what theyre talking about. Like it should be pretty easy to do if she ran such a good campaign. And I don't consider having a national lead and then falling off a cliff to be particularly noteworthy in that category either. If anything it should signify what a bad job her team has done at maintaining that lead.
1. Focused on presenting a long list of detailed and achievable policy. Helped bring a lot of concepts into the popular discussion such as universal childcare and a wealth tax.
2. Refused to lie or obfuscate about how to pay for that policy. Even though this likely hurt her more than anything.
3. Focused heavily on retail politics. Everything from the selfie lines to the phone calls to donors.
4. Avoided—until CNN stepped in—making the campaign about her being a woman. Although inevitably it was going to come up, and there's no way to avoid it short of being born a man.
5. Invested reasonably in key states—Biden's problem now is he invested heavily in IA and NH despite his chances of winning those states being abysmal from day one.
6. Even though it probably hurt her, a lot of her messaging was amazing. Her Wealth Tax messaging was great, her talk about abortion rights was great, and her speech in Atlanta about the role of black woman activists in American history set the bar for outreach.
