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Originally Posted by octothorp
I don't blame you for not remembering it, but her campaign was churning out a huge amount of policy papers. And a lot of them were not status quo. Debt-free college! Enough clean energy to power every home in America in a decade! Universal pre-school! Massive infrastructure projects! Paid family leave! A lot more I'm forgetting. These were ambitious goals that were laid out in far more detail than anything Biden or Harris or even Obama had done during their campaigns. She's a policy wonk, and early in her campaign she was really trying to lean into that. It might have worked in a pre-Trump election cycle, but once the election became about the fact that she was unlikeable, her campaign spent all their efforts trying to push back on that, rather than trying to sell her vision and expertise.
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To be clear, I wasn't suggesting she didn't have policy, I am saying she did a very poor job of marketing them.