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by revscat 3512 days ago
I suspect that it is this (somewhat cynical) line of thinking that cost Hillary the election. Successful politics is about coalition building. Maintaining and expanding those coalitions means following through on those promises.
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Or she didn't realize that what had worked for Obama, who's often cross that he even had to deal with the Congress, even when it was Democratic, and very famously went for a narrow but very deep Get Out The Vote (GOTV) strategy, wouldn't necessarily work for her.