Winning elections requires more than just participating in elections. To win elections, you need to show your voters that you care, especially when others may say it doesn’t matter.
This is something Bill Clinton understood well. Watch the documentary.war room” At the end of the film, one of the final comments made by Mr. Clinton, with joy and amazement, was about him and his team. We also beat Nevada.. For those from small states, it’s an especially shocking moment.
Moments like this clearly show that Clinton knew what it took to win in the Electoral College. When running for president, it’s important to remember that winning or losing an election is determined by small state pickup. This is part of the design of the Electoral College, but it’s a fact that Al Gore forgot in 2000 when he ran against George W. Bush. The American media paid as much attention to Florida’s results, and almost as much as they paid attention to Florida’s results. , if Al Gore was beat Nevada, He would have been President of the United States. Instead, he concentrated vast resources in a large state (Florida) and left Nevada to fend for itself. That was a bad decision.
Boise Nice is pretty forgiving, but not stupid. Actions speak louder than words.
Last week, Nikki Haley made the equally poor decision to treat the Idaho caucuses as not important enough to warrant any real attention. She and her campaign took the time to invest $50,000 to get her name on the ballot, but she took a moment or two to craft a professional appeal to the state’s Republican voters. I decided not to waste any time on it.
Her lack of professionalism in how she appealed to Idaho voters made me lose confidence in her abilities as a legitimate presidential candidate. You know, I was one of her 13.2% of Idaho Republicans who voted for Haley in the presidential caucuses last Saturday.
As the day began, my wife and I were excited to attend the caucus and support Haley as our preferred candidate. We love her balance of toughness and her Southern charm, and have long admired her accomplishments as a governor and ambassador. We believe she is the best candidate to defeat Joe Biden in the fall, and one who could potentially last another eight years instead of Trump’s term-limited four years. I thought.
As tough a fighter as Trump is, he only has a short time left to accomplish what he started. What happens next will depend on whether he picks his vice president or the next Republican to run. In some ways, Trump will take office as a lame duck from day one, but Haley will not face the same problems. There were other reasons why we supported her, but that was a big one.
Our caucus experience is off to a great start. My wife and I volunteered at district events and experienced first-hand the beauty of American democracy. We helped set up check-in stations so that ballots could be safely distributed to attendees and attendees could comfortably watch videos of Donald Trump and Nikki Haley’s campaign final speeches. I’ve adjusted it.
The Idaho Republican Party arranged for the caucus to be held ahead of “Super Tuesday” to ensure that Idaho’s 32 delegates matter. Due to chaos by the state legislature, there will be no presidential primary election in Idaho. Dorothy Moon and her party tried to get Congress to resolve the issue, including the issue of Idaho in the process, but Congress was unable to address the issue. That means the state party needs to step up and hold caucuses to elect our candidates, and the party has stepped up. The party has created an intuitive and fair process that works seamlessly in local constituencies.
But what the state party couldn’t control was how the candidates presented themselves. The onus was on the Trump and Haley campaigns to convince voters like me to vote for their candidates. The Trump campaign did a great job. This campaign has produced very professional videos that address issues that Idahoans are concerned about. Mr. Trump took the time to thank the Idaho lawmakers by name and show that he believes we are all in this together. He was asking Idahoans to vote for him, but he was also showing them that he cared enough about them to ask questions in a thoughtful manner.
The same cannot be said about Nikki Haley’s presentation. His wife and I had seen many times on the news how Hayley was out there preparing for Super Tuesday, insisting as much as she could, so we were sympathetic to her time constraints. We knew she wouldn’t be stopping by Idaho personally, but we were hoping she would put together a good proposal for her 32 delegates. We expected Haley to act like a professional politician who cares whether we vote for her or not.
She and her campaign were unsuccessful. Instead of providing Idaho caucus attendees with professionally produced videos that highlight issues important to Idaho and demonstrate the knowledge of local politicians, we provide half-baked “Deadline Eve” I got the first draft essay version. of pitch.
As my wife and I watched Nikki Haley’s video presentation, we found that none of the caucus attendees who were on the fence about voting for her and would have considered voting were persuaded. . It made my wife and I question our support. While Trump’s presentation was professionally written and edited, Haley’s was a whirlwind tour to appeal to voters in other states, shot on the spot while driving from one location to another. Photographed.
How did we know this? You could hear her bus engine revving in the background of her recording, and you could see her rise and fall as her bus traveled down the road. You could also tell when her bus hit a pothole because there was a sharp “thud” and her body briefly jumped up on the screen. To make matters worse, she didn’t even take the time to use her external microphone and relied on the built-in microphone of the laptop she was using to record her messages, so you could hear the echo of the space she was recording in. I’m here.
Both my wife and I felt insulted. We didn’t feel like our vote mattered to Haley at all. Although we believe her claims that she is a RINO are baseless, she has indicated that she is not very interested in the Idaho vote. We understand this is Trump country. Idaho is a strongly Republican state with a deep conservative tradition. While these characteristics are part of why we moved to this state and why we love it so much, this is also a state defined by things like “Boise Nice.” Idahoans are a polite group, and even the angry Californians who move here eventually develop that sentiment.
Boise Nice is pretty forgiving, but not stupid. Actions speak louder than words. People in smaller states are just as important as people in larger states. They can be even more important in presidential elections, as they can tip the balance and result in a victory. Nikki Haley treated Idaho like an afterthought. Otherwise, she probably would still have lost the caucus, but she would have gotten something else. She would have earned continued respect from her wife and me. She showed on her Saturday that she didn’t care at all whether we voted for her or not, and she lost it.
