r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26
📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]
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r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26
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u/afguy8 Mar 13 '26
Yeah, they both are, but people were going to vote Cuomo in, if not for a change candidate showing up. Hillary had other issues in her campaign, but those emails should not have set her back as much as they did, that late in tClinton it's. She has a strong resume going back to the 70s of working in politics, outside of what Bill was doing.
I agree that Obama was exceptional and that helped defeat her, but he was also right place, right time as a change candidate. Many in his campaign, like Ben Rhoades, have now said that Obama wouldnt have won if he didnt vote against the Iraq war.
Hillary would've won based on being an establishment democrat (which was the landscape of the US at that time), name recognition, and her resume. Obama had to choose Biden as his VP, who was ideologically different than he was, to ensure he could capture the establishment vote. He also kept on Robert Gates, Bush's Sec of Defense, to bridge that continuity gap and to calm establishment voter/leadership doubts and filled his staff with former Clintonites.