Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
By describing them, and presumably even her own husband, as racist rednecks? Rubbish strategery, imo. And worse instincts.

The whole Tea Party thing from a year or two back showed that the Donald wouldn't really be considered "toxic" at all, only to urban trendies.
But it's hard to know its effectiveness as a strategy. It may well be that had she not chosen that method of attack, she would have lost by a bigger margin. It seems entirely plausible to me that many people were dissuaded from voting for Trump because they didn't want to be tainted by association with the more "deplorable" factions of his supporter base.