After trolling around the news reports of the “Potomac Primary” this evening I ended up reading a NYT Magazine piece about David Axelrod. Fascinating!
Although it was published in April of 2007 as Obama was starting his campaign, it reads like a playbook of the strategy deployed to date - the message of hope, optimism, and moving beyond the politics of the small. Of the exact themes that Billary’s hitting him with today as negatives (inexperience, no specifics, etc..) Axelrod & Co. were already waiting for and expecting them.
Compare this guy to Hillary’s “Microtrends” guy Mark Penn, who has the same roll as Axelrod in her camp. Talk about “politics of the small”. Newsweek has a good contrast piece on the two.
This is a watershed campaign year for the Democrats. They can either reach back in to the past or grab forward into the future. I may vote Democratic for the first time in a long while but it’ll only be if Barack is the guy at the head of the ticket and with out a whiff of Billary. If not, I’m holding my nose and voting Republican.
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