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Failure In 2008 Leads To 2016 Nomination

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Jun 13, 2016

Failure In 2008 Leads To 2016 Nomination

I began by looking back at the how Hillary Clinton began her campaigns. You could hear a clear difference of tone when it comes to the way she presents herself to the American people.

Qualities of 2008 Hillary Clinton Announcement Video

-Formal

-Straight forward

-Concise

-Presidential sounding

-Clearly Opposing of President George W. Bush.

-Hopeful for Working Americans

-Negative Tone about Washington

Messages

"Let the conversation begin."

Qualities of 2016 Hillary Clinton Announcement Video

-Informal style

-Family-oriented

-Diverse

-Reaching out to all types of Americans

-Representative to all ages (children to elderly)

-Warm and open

Messages

"I'm getting ready for"

"Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion."

"Deck is still stacked for those on the top"

2008 Hillary Debate Themes:

-Clear and Concise answers

-Increased spending on infrastructure to create jobs for America

-Supported the idea of NAFTA, but believed it was not executed to it's full potential to help America gain from it.

-Hurt America because NAFTA didn't help American farmers, businessmen, and workers get products to other countries.

-Called for smart trade that benefits Americans, and other workers around the world.

-Enforcing trade agreement and using information to maximize gains from global world and minimizing impact here.

-Energy efficiency and creating jobs in will not be outsourced.

-References husband's surplus and stop borrowing from the Chinese.

-Calls out Chinese for badly produced food and toys

-Pushed to get soldiers out of Iraq and stabilize the region

-Protect social security

-Improve Department of Labor

-Against No Child Left Behind and against testing

2016 Hillary Clinton Debate Themes

-Long list of Experience

-Calls for helping children to be able to pursue their dreams and live up to their potential.

-Investing in infrastructure

-Green Energy

-Raising minimum wage

-Profit sharing with workers

-Tax reform for Wealthy and Middle class (Higher and lower respectively)

-Paid family leave

-Healing divides between people of different races, sexual orientations, and genders

-Defending her change of opinions based upon absorbing new information

-Progressive who gets things done

-Against complete socialism, but says there is a time when it is necessary

-Against gun-manufacturing immunity

-Standing up to Putin and holding Russians accountable

-Defending herself and the email scandal

-Affordable College

-Concise responses

My favorite:

Chaffee telling Clinton that the email scandal is a big deal.

Anderson Cooper: Do you want to respond?

Hillary Clinton: *smiles* No.

Primary Results 2008

Obama vs Clinton:

32 Primaries wins vs 24 Primary wins.

Delegate Count

Obama vs Clinton: (Real Clear Politics)

State	Date	Delegates	Obama	Clinton
Total	-		2229.5	1896.5

Super Delegates	-	823	463	257

Pledged Delegates	-	3434	1766.5	1639.5

Primary Results 2016

Clinton vs Sanders

32 Primary wins vs. 24 Primary Wins

Delegate Count

Clinton vs Sanders (Real Clear Politics)

State	Date ▾	Delegates	Clinton	Sanders	Delegate Allocation	Open/ Closed
(2,382 Needed to Win)	-	4763	2784	1877	-	-
Delegates Won	-	4051	2203	1828
Superdelegates	-	(712)	581	49

Continuous Similarities

2008 Speech After Senator Obama Won Nomination

"Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it.

2016 Speech After Secretary Clinton Won Nomination

[…] one that you have taken with me and I am so grateful to you. It is wonderful to be back in Brooklyn, here in this […]. And it may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now. But don’t worry, we’re not smashing this one.

Writer's Opinion

it is quite clear to me that the results of the two elections were quite similar. However, Hillary Clinton learned from her mistakes in the 2008 election and was able to fix those failures to be able to become to Presumptive Democratic Party's nominee. Now we will see if history repeats it's self and will Senator Sanders work for Hillary in her administration. We know after a meeting with President Obama that Sanders have vowed to work with Hillary in the near future. However, the how and amount has not been publicly address. Could Sanders be Hillary's choice for VP? Will he be able to persuade his supporters to switch from saying they Feel the Bern to I'm With Her? Will Hillary Clinton be able to defeat Donald Trump and any other third party member and become the first female president in the United States and make history like President Obama did in 2008?

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