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Hillary Clinton Is On A Mission To Rebuild The Democratic Party
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-democratic-party_us_57645313e4b015db1bc95fd3I am SOOOO happy to hear that the HRC campaign is doing this. It is "50-State-Strategy 2.0." The DNC first implemented this in 2006 under Howard Dean and I was VERY unhappy when later DNC Chairs quietly abandoned it. It is the ONLY way to rebuild the state networks to support good Dem candidates at the local level.
We are one country: the United States. We are not simply "red states," "blue states" and "swing states." The typical DNC strategy, both before and after Howard Dean has been to focus only on "blue states" and "swing states", and that has been my major criticism of that body.
Even if Hillary loses some states, as she most assuredly will unless people there are literally terrified by Don the Con as they should be, rebuilding the grassroots networks will help all around.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will maintain staff in all 50 states during the general election with an eye toward overwhelming Republicans in the fall and rebuilding the Democratic Party’s infrastructure thereafter.
The strategy, described to The Huffington Post by Clinton campaign aides, is a continuation of the Ramp Up Grassroots Organizing program that the campaign applied to the Democratic primary. But unlike that approach — which had the immediate objective of competing with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in each state contest — the current one carries risk.
Many states in which Clinton will be employing staff and spending resources will almost assuredly vote against her anyway. She could end up wasting money that is needed to win swing states. But her staffers say the investment is well worth it.
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Clinton has a different mindset on these matters than the man she’s hoping to succeed. It is, in some respects, an extension of her lengthy history in the party, from her time in state government (as first lady of Arkansas) to her role at the White House and her tenure in the Senate. Aides say she recognizes how much thinner the Democratic bench has become over the last seven years — having seen longtime allies lose their seats — and wants the trend reversed.
The strategy, described to The Huffington Post by Clinton campaign aides, is a continuation of the Ramp Up Grassroots Organizing program that the campaign applied to the Democratic primary. But unlike that approach — which had the immediate objective of competing with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in each state contest — the current one carries risk.
Many states in which Clinton will be employing staff and spending resources will almost assuredly vote against her anyway. She could end up wasting money that is needed to win swing states. But her staffers say the investment is well worth it.
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Clinton has a different mindset on these matters than the man she’s hoping to succeed. It is, in some respects, an extension of her lengthy history in the party, from her time in state government (as first lady of Arkansas) to her role at the White House and her tenure in the Senate. Aides say she recognizes how much thinner the Democratic bench has become over the last seven years — having seen longtime allies lose their seats — and wants the trend reversed.
This is indeed the candidate best qualified to be President. She looks beyond herself and parochial interests for the long-term benefit of the Democratic Party and liberal concerns as a whole.
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One sentence from the article summed this up in a nutshell, IMO.
Clinton’s approach is also born from a belief that institutions, more than personalities, form the basis for political progress — that even the most moving rhetoric runs up against the procedural rules of the House and Senate.
This is how revolution REALLY happens.
This is indeed the candidate best qualified to be President. She looks beyond herself and parochial interests for the long-term benefit of the Democratic Party and liberal concerns as a whole.
her taking the long view! But you know what? I thought she would! 
