Can Hillary Clinton Really Get Away With Skipping Netroots?

The National Journal reports:

The annual Netroots Nation conference has attracted thousands of liberal activists, the core of the Democratic Party's base, to the 100-degree-plus desert heat. It attracted its latest hero, Elizabeth Warren. It has attracted two Democratic presidential candidates.

But someone it could not attract was Hillary Clinton, the person most likely to need its attendees' help at the top of next November's ballot.

"Major unforced error. Showing up is important," said Adam Green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which three years ago raised more than $1 million to help Warren win a Republican-held Senate seat in Massachusetts. "It's important that people address those whom they expect a lot from. So, it's unfortunate."

The Democratic presidential front-runner is instead speaking at a state party dinner in Arkansas, where she was once first lady, but which is unlikely to go her way in 2016. "It wasn't working with her schedule," said Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri. "There are lots of opportunities that we aren't able to do, but [the Arkansas dinner] had already been locked in."

It's obvious, Hillary doesn't need Netroots because she will get their vote.