{"id":7948,"date":"2015-05-09T06:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T11:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2015-05-09T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T11:49:28","slug":"tomgram-nomi-prins-hillary-bill-and-the-big-six-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7948","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

She eats at Chipotle. (Order:\u00a0chicken burrito bowl<\/a>.) She travels by van. (Model: A\u00a0Chevy Express Explorer Limited SE<\/a>\u00a0nicknamed the “Scooby” van.) She barely figures in her own presidential campaign announcement video. (Entrance timing: A minute and a half into\u00a0the two-minute clip<\/a>.) Her campaign staff is so cheap they don’t have business cards, they commute by Bolt Bus, and they aren’t even equipped with real phones.<\/p>\n

This is the “new” Hillary Clinton in the early days of her 2016 presidential bid. Absent — for now — are the swagger, the grand pronouncements, the packed gymnasiums and auditoriums, and the claques of well-paid consultants falling over each other to advise and guide her that we saw in Clinton’s last presidential bid. This time around, Clinton is casting herself in a new role: as the humble and understated people\u2019s candidate. She cares about “everyday Iowans” and “everyday Granite Staters.” She really does! Her carefully staged events with those “everyday” Americans at small-town coffee shops and local businesses give her the chance to “share ideas to tackle today\u2019s problems and demonstrate her commitment to earning their votes.”<\/p>\n

This effort to recast Clinton as a folksy, down-to-earth, woman of we-the-people is, however, about to collide with the reality of American politics in the money-crazed, post-Citizens United<\/em>era. Winning the White House in 2016 will cost somewhere between $1 billion and $3 billion — money raised by the candidate’s own campaign and outside groups like super PACs and dark-money nonprofits. And this in an election where it\u2019s already estimated that the overall money may\u00a0hit $10 billion<\/a>. Jeb Bush, arguably the most formidable candidate in the GOP field, is on his way to raising $100 million in just the first few months of 2015, a year and a half before the actual election.<\/p>\n

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Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks She eats at Chipotle. (Order:\u00a0chicken burrito bowl.) She travels by van. (Model: A\u00a0Chevy Express Explorer Limited SE\u00a0nicknamed the “Scooby” van.) She barely figures in her own presidential campaign announcement video. (Entrance timing: A minute and a half into\u00a0the two-minute clip.) Her campaign staff is so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,5270,3741,1120,575,5271,877],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-banks","tag-big-banks","tag-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-nomi-prins","tag-presidential-election-2016","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}