"White House to launch new political office"

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White House to launch new political office

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/white-house-office-of-political-strategy-outreach-102582.html?hp=f3

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Democratic campaign operatives have been getting worried that the White House wasn’t doing enough to help them in the midterms, and that President Barack Obama didn’t care enough to change that.

Friday, Obama responded: David Simas, a longtime aide who returned to the White House after running polling and focus groups for the reelection campaign, was named director of a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
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The re-establishment of an internal political operation marks a significant shift for the White House, and the latest step in a 2014 West Wing reorientation that’s aimed at quickly making up for years of lost time, both on Capitol Hill and around the country.

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Simas, whom the White House is portraying as a one-stop shop for all things midterms, is the answer: he’ll be the point of contact on requests for presidential visits, fundraiser appearances and sign-offs on direct mail and email blasts. He’ll also oversee strategic planning and be the one administration officials turn to for guidance on what they can and can’t legally do on the campaign trail, a White House aide said



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1. Good to see where priorties are ...

I just can't get enough of that Third Way hope and change.

[frazzled]

3. What original vitriol

It must get a bit tiresome repeating the same slogan time and again. You'd think we hadn't heard it before.

Since you disapprove of whatever efforts the president's staff might make in getting people elected in 2014, I think it might be more interesting if you got busy yourself and successfully elected all the Senate and House members who (temporarily--until they actually get elected, of course) won't disappoint you. Lots of luck -- I bet every candidate you are rooting for will make it!

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5. Hearing it a lot, are you?

Wonder why?

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2. OH PBO CARES. And, they will be doing everything

they can.



"Friday, Obama responded: David Simas, a longtime aide who returned to the White House after running polling and focus groups for the reelection campaign, was named director of a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach."

To David Simas..

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4. it's ok but seems odd that it is in the white house and not the dems party HQ nt