“Strategy No. 4: Drop an opposition research bomb on Trump Speaking of which, I often see reporters speculating or predicting that the Clinton campaign is sitting on one or two major pieces of opposition research about Trump, which they’ll leak to the press at a time of maximum strategic advantage. T…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.comTagged: Election 2012, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump
“Strategy No. 3: Let it go This is the opposite of strategy No. 1. Here the Clinton campaign lays low after calculating that the story will die of its own accord. And it may be what we see if the campaign doesn’t see much impact from the FBI news in public and internal polls by early next week. The C…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.comTagged: Election 2012, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump
“Strategy No. 2: Rile up Democratic partisans by attacking Comey and other targets While Clinton herself hasn’t yet attacked Comey’s motivations, her top surrogates and advisors like John Podesta are already doing so. There’s the risk of hypocrisy here given that some of these same Clinton surrogates…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.comTagged: Election 2012, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump
“Strategy No. 1: Demand more details from Comey This was Clinton’s initial strategy during her brief press conference on Friday, where she said that ‘the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.’ This approach carries a couple of advantages. First, Clinton may reasonabl…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.comTagged: Election 2012, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump
“I’ve heard from people who wonder whether Friday’s news – that FBI director James Comey was investigating additional emails that may be pertinent to Hillary Clinton’s private email server — might have come too late in the campaign to be reflected in the polls, and therefore in our forecast, before E…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.comTagged: Election 2012, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump