Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton
The only thing I have to say is if Obama continues to hire folks that beat the Clintons at their own game, who do the research and understand the issues they are facing and plot a winner course, we’ll be in good hands I think.
Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton
Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually lose.
Obama’s campaign mastered some of the most arcane rules in politics, and then used them to foil a front-runner who seemed to have every advantage — money, fame and a husband who had essentially run the Democratic Party for eight years as president.
“Without a doubt, their understanding of the nominating process was one of the keys to their success,” said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist not aligned with either candidate. “They understood the nuances of it and approached it at a strategic level that the Clinton campaign did not.”
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by George Sand
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