• As Trump And Clinton Campaign Staffers Face Off At Harvard, Bitterness Overwhelms : The Two-Way : NPR
    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/02/504093288/bitterness-overwhelms-as-trump-and-clinton-campaign-staffers-face-off-at-harvar


    Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway sits with Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, before a forum at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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    There were moments when watching the Trump and Clinton campaigns discuss the election at the Campaign Managers Conference at the Harvard Institute of Politics was like watching The Jerry Springer Show without the chair-throwing (or paternity disputes).

    The 2016 campaign was an ugly, knock-down, drag-out fight between two different visions of America. So it was fitting that the typically polite and clinical quadrennial gathering of campaign professionals would erupt into shouting matches and accusations raw with emotion.

    Sélection perso (Nota: rien sur les fake news …)

    Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager who finished out the election with Trump, had this takeaway:
    There’s a difference to voters between what offends you and what affects you. And they were being told constantly, ’Stare at this, care about this, make this the deal-breaker once and for all.’ And they were told that five or six times a week about different things. And yet they went, they voted the way voters have always voted: on things that affect them, not just things that offend them.
    […]
    Conway continued: “Do you think you guys could have just had a decent message for the white working-class voters? Do you think this woman [Clinton] who has nothing in common with anybody ...