Only if you interpreted "Hillary....not so much" to mean she doesn't pander much. Which isn't what I was saying. I was saying that she isn't GOOD at it.
No, I interpreted you as saying that pandering is a bunch of things politicians do to get votes that aren't just spontaneous heartfelt emotions.
Okay, but your takeaway (as evidenced by the clip you linked) is that pandering has no drawbacks. I would argue that pandering is always a gamble.
If you do it well, it can have a big upside (think Clinton playing the sax; Bush in his flight suit standing on a carrier).
If you do it in a mediocre fashion (as most pols do), it's kind of a zero-sum thing. Tweeting a picture of yourself wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo day is lame, but most people aren't going to make a big deal of it.
If you do it in a tone-deaf fashion, it can have blowback. (e.g. wearing blackface to celebrate Black History Month; dressing up as a mariachi and getting blasted on tequila for Cinco de Mayo, when you're white; Dukakis riding in a tank)
Even the example in that WW episode (using your family as political props) is not without problems. Ted Cruz has been mocked for using his children as props. Obama has been mocked on occasion for his frequent references to his daughters. Trump...well, we know he'd like to bone Ivanka, so there's that. Hillary has been touting that she's a grandmother (ahem, an
abuela), and the response has been tepid at best, and indignant at worst.