Ok, I apologize for the crude title. I could just have said the Golden Rule of not questioning your priors too often as the economists put it but that seemed less arresting some how.
The former Obama campaign guy is advising Hillary. He has some interesting observations that I think are made with love.
“I think you build your team, and you stick by your team, and you run,” said Plouffe. “It's got to be very hard for the Clintons. They’ve been on the scene for decades. So any time things go wrong, they have dozens of people, you know, in their email box, and probably calling, saying, ‘Told you so. You’ve got to do this. You’ve got to do this… You’re going to have your valleys, and that’s always a test. And if the thing you do is sew internal tension, and allow voices from the outside to really, I think, affect the campaign in a negative way, you may not win.”
"Early on, it seemed like the Clintons were headed to the same dark place they inhabited for much of 2008. Both were in a sour, question-everything mood in the days after her microscopic victory in Iowa, when it was clear Sanders was about to deliver a humbling and decisive win in New Hampshire. There was talk of accelerating a reevaluation of staff that had been expected after Super Tuesday, or after she secured the nomination. (Some in Clinton’s orbit even floated the non-starter idea that Plouffe abandon his lucrative Uber gig and jump aboard the campaign.)"
"Despite the finger pointing, Clinton decided to stay the course, and was rewarded with game-changing victories in Nevada and South Carolina – and Plouffe hopes she doesn’t get itchy-scratchy when things go south, as they inevitably will, in a general election fight. “I think what you do need to figure out whether it’s one voice,” Plouffe said of the campaign’s overall strategy – and please do away with Clintons propensity to summon the clans for 10-to-20-person conference calls anytime things went wrong, he urged."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/david-plouffe-hillary-clinton-trump-2016-219947#ixzz41YnbFVBm
This was always a big part of Obama's message discipline. He always just had a few folks he trusted-Plouffe, David Adelrod, Robert Gibbs- and kept the circle small.
Leaks are the price of having a larger circle.
The one time Obama tried a bigger circle at the start of his re-election campaign in 2011, there were a bunch of leaks.
Stay the course is usually the best choice in general. We see this in economics and the other-harder? LOL-sciences as well.
If you change your theory of the case too often you get nothing done. A lot of times the virtue of a theory is not that its' the best possible one but that it helps you focus your action in a singleminded way.
P.S. Hugh Hewitt comes up with no less than six reasons as a conservative he will support Trump over Hillary.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/six-reasons-trump-is-still-better-than-clinton/article/2584476
Great. I want them all to get behind Trump so he becomes the nominee.
This is going to be a fun general if you're a Democrat.
The former Obama campaign guy is advising Hillary. He has some interesting observations that I think are made with love.
“I think you build your team, and you stick by your team, and you run,” said Plouffe. “It's got to be very hard for the Clintons. They’ve been on the scene for decades. So any time things go wrong, they have dozens of people, you know, in their email box, and probably calling, saying, ‘Told you so. You’ve got to do this. You’ve got to do this… You’re going to have your valleys, and that’s always a test. And if the thing you do is sew internal tension, and allow voices from the outside to really, I think, affect the campaign in a negative way, you may not win.”
"Early on, it seemed like the Clintons were headed to the same dark place they inhabited for much of 2008. Both were in a sour, question-everything mood in the days after her microscopic victory in Iowa, when it was clear Sanders was about to deliver a humbling and decisive win in New Hampshire. There was talk of accelerating a reevaluation of staff that had been expected after Super Tuesday, or after she secured the nomination. (Some in Clinton’s orbit even floated the non-starter idea that Plouffe abandon his lucrative Uber gig and jump aboard the campaign.)"
"Despite the finger pointing, Clinton decided to stay the course, and was rewarded with game-changing victories in Nevada and South Carolina – and Plouffe hopes she doesn’t get itchy-scratchy when things go south, as they inevitably will, in a general election fight. “I think what you do need to figure out whether it’s one voice,” Plouffe said of the campaign’s overall strategy – and please do away with Clintons propensity to summon the clans for 10-to-20-person conference calls anytime things went wrong, he urged."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/david-plouffe-hillary-clinton-trump-2016-219947#ixzz41YnbFVBm
This was always a big part of Obama's message discipline. He always just had a few folks he trusted-Plouffe, David Adelrod, Robert Gibbs- and kept the circle small.
Leaks are the price of having a larger circle.
The one time Obama tried a bigger circle at the start of his re-election campaign in 2011, there were a bunch of leaks.
If you change your theory of the case too often you get nothing done. A lot of times the virtue of a theory is not that its' the best possible one but that it helps you focus your action in a singleminded way.
P.S. Hugh Hewitt comes up with no less than six reasons as a conservative he will support Trump over Hillary.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/six-reasons-trump-is-still-better-than-clinton/article/2584476
Great. I want them all to get behind Trump so he becomes the nominee.
This is going to be a fun general if you're a Democrat.
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