“She is someone with a long record in public life, but people forget,” said David Greenberg, a history and journalism professor at Rutgers University. “Younger voters, who don’t have the memory — or older voters with short memories.”
From that perspective, there is much that Mrs. Clinton may be able to do as she controls the convention stage for the next four nights.
A parade of Democratic stars, including a sitting president, a former president and Mr. Sanders, stand ready to offer a remedial course in Hillary Clinton. “We have a cavalry who are fully armed,” said David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. “For Trump, it was all on him.”
Mrs. Clinton also has the advantages of following the turbulent Republican gathering and of having a team far more experienced than Mr. Trump’s at producing sophisticated conventions, giving her an opportunity to contrast a presumably more united party and a more consistent message with what was displayed in Cleveland.
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