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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my view, the headline should read "DNC can't protect candidates data."  Of course, I have so many questions and thoughts -

1.  What is the big deal anyway?  The party should let all democratic candidates have access to all potential voter information.  More open information will only serve the party to get the best candidate. Is it so bad that Berne and Hilary  send an emails to each's others lists and supporters. i don't get it.

2.  If this is a problem, why is the DNC even putting candidates at risk for headlines like this?

3.  Bernie's campaign is pushing back aggressively.  This makes me think there is more to the story. If this turns out to be some internal feud where the establishment folks are trying to make Bernie look bad, then I think this will backfire for the establishment folks and HRC.

4. The main argument I keep hearing against Bernie is that he can't win.  That is not all that convincing to me. I even see polls where he would beat every Republican candidate. Many of us support Bernie/Warren types over Wall St candidates because we want change. Change is not going to come by just supporting the status quo.  Someone has to take a risk. The world gets warmer, Wall St. get's richer, terrorists get bolder and the current policies keep on chugging...

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1. That's ridiculous.  The campaigns are going door-to-door talking to voters, marking down the issues important to individual constituents, and logging that data in the VAN.  This isn't just Jane Doe lives at 123 Main Street and is a registered Democrat.  It's microdata aimed at understanding patterns and targeting individual voters with certain mailings, calls, etc.  The campaigns have had folks in the field for months gathering this data, and it's the backbone of their operation at the moment.

3.  This has nothing to do with the "establishment" making Bernie look bad.  His campaign did the wrong thing.  When a technical glitch gave them access to the other candidate's hard work, they didn't report it, but rather downloaded the data and put it in their private files.  The DNC would go hard against any campaign that did the same.

4. Your argument has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, which is about whether Bernie's campaign team effed up.  They did.  [/quote]

I admit I am not a campaign person, but this also strikes me as something that should have been kept in-house. For whatever reason, it was leaked to the press.  There is now a huge story among Bernie supporters that his campaign is getting sabotaged.  Right or wrong, this will hurt Hilary.  If she does win the nomination, she will need Bernie supporters, especially in close states like VA.   If Hilary was smart, she would stop this mess.  She could even look good by acting like the adult in the room and calming everyone down.

Meanwhile, if Bernie is president, this kind of stuff will happen all the time.  People try to pin Benghazi-like scandals on him.  He needs to get make sure his team is disciplined and he can handle these controversies. His message is inequality, but his opponents will try to distract away from that message constantly.[/quote]

An early PP is right. Hillary should do exactly what Bernie did in response to her emails -- Make it clear she doesn't care and is not going to be petty. You are right, this shouldn't have become so antagonistic and public. It reflects poorly on the DNC.[/quote]

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