Subject: Hillary goes almost 100% negative
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:43:09 +0000

Considering that a) Hillary's campaign has become close to 100% negative with attacks on Bernie, b) she is running to serve Obama's third term, c) her latest move is to escalate her use of Wall Street money and Super PAC's to pursue her negative attacks against Bernie, d) a growing number of her black surrogates have moved beyond supporting her record to openly lying about Bernie's record, and e) before this latest move her favorable ratings were dangerously low and her distrust numbers were dangerously high, I would predict:

1.  Her numbers for unfavorable will rise as more Democrats who are friendly to Bernie but also friendly to Hillary shift from favorable to both to unfavorable towards Hillary.

2.  The number of voters who distrust Hillary will rise for the same reasons as (1) above.

3.  The antagonism towards Hillary from younger voters, including younger female voters, will rise and she will poison the attitudes about politics of many young voters in ways that could prove catastrophic to her and Democrats.

4.  The number of Bernie voters who will stay home on election day in the event Hillary is nominated will rise to potentially alarming levels that will hurt Democrats at all levels running in 2016.

5.  The paradigm of the latest version of the Hillary Clinton campaign is almost identical to the paradigm of the damage that Obama did in 2010 and 2014 midterms when Democrats were slaughtered in elections for the House, the Senate, governorships and state legislatures when Republican voters were hyper-energized and Democratic voters were depressed.

Hillary will win South Carolina no matter how she campaigns, but the way she is campaigning right now is doing extreme and potentially irreparable damage to her prospects for becoming president and to Democrats across-the-board running in 2016. 

Hillary Clinton and her campaign are radically out of touch with the destruction to her interests that is caused by the number of voters who distrust her and the growing intensity of distrust she is causing in real time, at this moment.

Virtually every Democrat I know outside the Clinton campaign privately agrees with much or all of the above assessment including some who are acting as public surrogates for her campaign, who are concerned about the antagonism that their attacks against Bernie is creating from their own base of support.

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