Hillary Clinton was born October 26, 1947. She grew up in a
suburb of Chicago called Park Ridge, in a middle class family. She later
graduated from Wellesley College in 1969. Later she enrolled in Yale Law School
where she met her soon to be husband, Bill Clinton. Bill later to be the
Governor of Arkansas and then the president of the United States in both the
1992 and 1996 terms. Hillary Clinton later became the First women to become the
Senator of New York. This is important to k now about her because it shows that
she has experience with politics and has a background with an affiliation of
presidential campaigns seeing as she was the First Lady for two terms. Hillary
also ran for president for the first time in 2008. This was probably her best
advantage over everyone else. The expirence of being around politics for as
long as she was would help her in debates and campaigning.
Hillary had a decent public image. Because she’s a woman,
she had a more family, care-giving orientation than other candidates. She was
also endorsed by Former President Barack Obama. This gave her yet another edge
over her competition because she was being supported by someone with one of the
highest appeal ratings of any president. I feel like she wanted to be perceived
as a people person, or someone that everyone could relate to. Coming from the
middle class, she is able to appeal to a broader section of people than say her
opponent, Donald Trump. She stayed constant with the amount of ads she put
in the media as well as televised commercials in order to reach as many people
as possible. A good amount of her commercials was also bashing her opponents which
didn’t really help her come off as the innocent, or “good” person she was
trying so hard to be. Her image was skewered when she went after other people.
I feel as
if e deciding factor in a lot of people’s votes against Hillary was that she
was “Crooked Hillary” or that she couldn’t be trusted. Yes, she did have the
email scandal, yes she did have the Benghazi incident, but if she had focused
more on the good that she had done, or things that she had tried to right those
wrongs she would have been better off. Instead of shifting the focus of these
two problems, she should have attacked both of these incidents. Admitting what
she did was wrong, since there’s no taking it back, and then moving forward
with how she plans to fix it would have shifted a good amount of people back to
her side. She did a good job with appealing to the average family with her
campaign. Her commercials revolved around kids and middle class families. This
would be her best focal point. The average citizen and small families take up a
majority of the population, which would be a majority of the vote. Targeting
this audience was a good ploy on her part in order to get a stake in.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/about/hillary/
It is interesting that you saw her campaign as appealing to women and families, I saw many media outlets describe her as more cold and un-relateable for a presidential candidate. Unfortunately I think that is because of the stigma of a woman being in a position of power. It is a tricky slope that I commend her for taking on in her campaign which is the balance of how much strength to exude as a woman before you are criticized by the public.
ReplyDeleteI like the fact you mentioned Hillary was endorsed by Barack Obama. He did a lot of campaigning for her and worked hard to help her victory chances. Obama was a very popular President and American man. The fact that he supported Hillary so much made Hillary look like a very well qualified Presidential candidate. And being a woman did make her look more caring as a mother, since many people who run for high public office are Men, so a woman candidate can relate to mothers across the country much better than Men can.
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