There was a good piece in The New Republic that finally admitted that with all the talk about Bernie and Trump, Hillary has millions more voters than either.
I wrote about that here.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-unsung-hillary-voter.html
Now I see that Rebecca Ruiz is claiming that Hillary supporters are more muted in their celebration of Hillary's big victories last week.
Hillary Clinton scored one of the biggest political victories of her life this week when she swept a series of critical primaries that essentially guaranteed her path to the Democratic presidential nomination.
Provided Clinton maintains her momentum and doesn't lose to Sen. Bernie Sanders by huge margins in upcoming primaries, she will be the first woman in American history to run in a general election for the nation's highest office.
One might have expected to see this milestone amplified on social media within hours of Clinton's commanding performance, but her supporters didn't swarm the digital public square like Sanders voters did the next day with a defiant #StillSanders hashtag.
The relative absence of Clinton backers isn't simple to explain, but it could point to the much-discussed enthusiasm gap, an election storyline that Clinton's campaign disputes.
"What the Hillarists can't understand is that we actually have principles we are willing to fight for.#StillSanders@WeAreBernie"
Snark like that isn't effective. On Twitter it explains why most folks can't stand the sanctimonious Bernie Bros who believe they have the market cornered on who the True Progressives are.
Meanwhile this tweet got RTed 41 times at the time of this article whereas this tweet got RTed 3002 times:
"To every volunteer, supporter, and donor who worked your heart out: Thank you. Let's do this."
I wrote about that here.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-unsung-hillary-voter.html
Now I see that Rebecca Ruiz is claiming that Hillary supporters are more muted in their celebration of Hillary's big victories last week.
Hillary Clinton scored one of the biggest political victories of her life this week when she swept a series of critical primaries that essentially guaranteed her path to the Democratic presidential nomination.
Provided Clinton maintains her momentum and doesn't lose to Sen. Bernie Sanders by huge margins in upcoming primaries, she will be the first woman in American history to run in a general election for the nation's highest office.
One might have expected to see this milestone amplified on social media within hours of Clinton's commanding performance, but her supporters didn't swarm the digital public square like Sanders voters did the next day with a defiant #StillSanders hashtag.
The relative absence of Clinton backers isn't simple to explain, but it could point to the much-discussed enthusiasm gap, an election storyline that Clinton's campaign disputes.
"Hillary Clinton is proud to have more votes in this primary than any candidate in either party, including 2.5 million more votes than Senator Sanders," Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for Clinton's campaign told Mashable.
http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/hillary-clinton-enthusiasm-gap/#CooRhNHEwuqm
http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/hillary-clinton-enthusiasm-gap/#CooRhNHEwuqm
I don't agree at all that there is this relative absence. I know as I talk to so many fellow Hillary lovers on Twitter everyday and so many that read my blog. I got tweets from many jubilant Hillary supporters like for instance a young twenty something African American woman who told me that she was over the moon after Hillary's 50 point win in South Carolina.
Lately I've noticed that the posts I've written about Hillary get the biggest number of readers.
A number of Hillary supporters on Twitter told me that I captured their emotions well in this piece where I talked about how Hillary and Obama would both get to be President after all.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/looks-like-both-obama-and-hillary-will.html
Nor are we supporters in any way 'scared of Bernie supporters'' just because of their nasty tweets that try to demonize her as being a conservative-they did the same thing to Obama in 2012 on Firedoglake and Daily Kos.
Ms. Ruiz seems impressed about a tweet by Sanders supporters after his lost night last week that many of them are saying they're still standing.
Snark like that isn't effective. On Twitter it explains why most folks can't stand the sanctimonious Bernie Bros who believe they have the market cornered on who the True Progressives are.
Meanwhile this tweet got RTed 41 times at the time of this article whereas this tweet got RTed 3002 times:
"To every volunteer, supporter, and donor who worked your heart out: Thank you. Let's do this."
This narrative of unenthusiastic Hillary supporters is false and it shows why the pundits were so shocked last week. They will continue not to get it.
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