3 Things We Know About Clinton’s Emerging Campaign
First Read: First, by grabbing Obamas chief pollster (Joel Benenson) and media consultant (Jim Margolis), Clinton has decided to enlist key parts of Obamas campaign 2008-2012 team, discarding the folks who ran her polling and media in 08
. When you add the fact that John Podesta is leaving the Obama White House to serve as a liaison between the Clinton campaign and White House (as well as to handle the Clinton Old Guard), its pretty easy to conclude that Clinton wont be running away from Obama. In fact, its looking like she will be more connected to him than ever.
Two, weve learned that Clinton most likely wont receive any real Democratic primary challenge, allowing her to focus on a general-election campaign much earlier than everyone else.
And three, the growing realization that 2016 is going to be the year of the political re-run or spinoff youve got Romney, a Bush, a Paul, Huckabee, Santorum, and of course Clinton is a potential problem for her
when its a growing cast of the same stale characters (or their relatives), its automatic to lump Clinton into that group. So she has to find a way to distance herself from that. Running as a historic candidate trying to be the first female president is a way to do that. But this could very well be her biggest challenge in 2016.
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