Hillary 2.0, social networks and youth to bring back the Clinton White HouseFROM OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK.
And now the enemy to beat is called: inevitability. Yesterday the staff of Hillary Clinton announced what everyone knew. Seven years after the terrible 2008, when the most favored in the Democratic field was defeated in the primaries by the young outsider Barack Obama, she tries again. Tomorrow will address the nation, with a video posted through social media: YouTube, Facebook & C. Already in that message will seek a human tone, sympathetic, seductive, motivating. To give the "the" in a campaign that has to be very different from the previous. Clinton aside, again, in pole position. But she knows how dangerous it is to do the race in the lead, has tried on her skin. Not only has one rival and have been declared in the democratic camp: there is time, however, this loneliness at the top gives you an idea of its strength.
The movements of the base left prancing and bustle: MoveOn, Democracy for America, have launched Elizabeth Warren as a possible competitor, far more radical. For now, Warren does not fit. Yet Hillary takes seriously this challenge to his left. more and more often speak of social inequality, stagnating wages, blocked mobility arrogance of the privileged: precisely the themes that have made the Warren who was close to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Calibrate a message and a program moved to the left - especially in comparison to the centrism with which ruled her husband Bill - he is part of this building a Hillary 2.0. The "new Hillary Clinton" must be able to repeat the two exploits of Obama: the victories of the president in 2008 and 2012 were built on an original "rainbow coalition": women, young people, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays. Apart from women, and towards Hillary will have an eye on, minorities who gave a decisive boost to Obama, are to be regained. Young people, immigrants, blacks: it is said that they feel driven by a 67 year old lady, a longtime practitioner of politics, tied hand in glove establishment, with the touch "dynastic" that comes from the surname of ex-president husband . This was the old image of Clinton. The new one must be built piece by piece from the video-announcement tomorrow.
In America, by the time the elections are won primarily on the percentage of voter turnout. The rule is quite simple: if it goes the turnout, it means that they vote especially white elderly, the most disciplined and loyal component, ie a majority Republican electorate. Why win a democratic must go to the polls en masse all the others: the New America, that is, ethnic minorities and young people. Hillary must focus on them, as the Tea Party has a solid grip on America WASP (white anglo saxon protestant) middle-aged. But the lack of rivals - at least for now - in the democratic camp is likely to make his task paradoxically more difficult. A lively internal debate in primary generates attention, feeds passions, then creates a dynamic that can raise the turnout. The inevitability if becomes the first part of the Hillary campaign in a peaceful stroll towards the coronation of his party, will raise more yawns than enthusiasm. Luckily we think Republicans us to concentrate on her enemy fire in order to create at least a little 'excitement. Dall'affaire Bangasi the destroyed mail, have already begun to raise scandals. One thing must be cautious: the temptation of sexism. God help us if the attacks against Hillary were to appear as an offensive against her as a woman, this error would be fatal America of 2016.
The most important mission for Hillary is this: to show that you can break the last "glass ceiling", as the Americans call that invisible yet real limitation that hinders the rise of women. This is the most exciting aspect of his campaign: gives a historical dimension, the race to break down the last barrier.
While its video-ad will be circulated tomorrow Hillary will already be on the ground: at Iowa State, the first to host the primaries (in the form of "caucus"), the one that in 2008 forced her to a humiliating third place behind Obama and John Edwards. This time Hillary does not want to take risks, do not leave anything to chance, he'll be careful not to snub any constituency. His electoral program will look in particular on economic issues, groped to regain the middle class impoverished, frightened and unhappy, that even after five years of shooting and 15 million jobs created, continues to suffer insecurity: its power purchasing stagnated for thirty years. Meanwhile, his electoral strategist John Podesta has also inaugurated a new style with the press: preparing spaghetti puttanesca for journalists. Another "constituency" in the past has not had easy relations with the Clinton clan.
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