(CNN) - David Plouffe, who steered President Obama's 2008 White House bid, will serve as campaign manager for the re-election bid of presidential pal Deval Patrick, the Boston Globe reported Friday.
Plouffe and senior presidential advisor David Axelrod helped lead Patrick's first Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign to victory in 2006, using themes that proved remarkably similar to those used in Obama's presidential effort.
Patrick - whose poll numbers have taken a hit in the face of the state's budget problems - does not currently face any major challenger from either party.
(CNN) - John McCain’s general election campaign began as “the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards” – and was doomed weeks before Election Day, his former chief strategist said Thursday.
“We were running a campaign under extra difficult circumstances - the state of the Republican Party, the president’s unpopularity, the economy - a lot of issues that were not John McCain’s fault, but were John McCain’s problem in this race,” Schmidt told an audience at the University of Delaware, according to Politico. “When Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall I knew pretty much right away that ... from an electoral strategy perspective, the campaign was finished.”
Schmidt and Obama campaign manager David Plouffe - who both attended, but did not graduate from Delaware - shared the stage and looked back at the 2008 campaign.
Schmidt praised Obama's political skills. “This was, in my view, the unfinished Bobby Kennedy campaign - the idealism, the passion, the inspiration he gave to people, it was organic and it was real and it wasn’t manufactured at a tactical level in the campaign,” he said.
(CNN) - He’s not getting a West Wing office, but Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is still getting rewarded for the president’s historic victory: after a major bidding war, he’s scored a book deal that reportedly falls in the seven-figure range.
A source close to Plouffe confirmed that the Obama advisor has reached a “lucrative” deal with Penguin Group imprint Viking for "The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory," to be released next fall.
The publisher said in a Tuesday statement that the book will offer an insider perspective on the historic campaign, including "the deliberations about whether to run against long odds, the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton, the drama of the general election campaign against John McCain and the strategic roads taken - and not taken ...”
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