Hillary Clinton recruits chief strategist, media adviser for 2016 effort

[brooklynite]

Washington Post:

Hillary Rodham Clinton is building out the senior leadership team for her likely 2016 presidential campaign, enlisting Joel Benenson as her chief strategist and pollster and Jim Margolis as her media adviser, Democrats familiar with the moves said Tuesday.

Both Benenson and Margolis are veteran Democratic operatives who worked on President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns.

On the likely Clinton campaign, they would work closely with two other aides that have been previously reported: John Podesta, who is expected to leave his White House post as counselor to Obama in February to serve as Clinton’s campaign chairman and enforcer, and Robby Mook, who would become campaign manager, these Democrats said.

Benenson, who is based in New York, served as the lead pollster on Obama’s campaigns, but is poised to take on a broader portfolio for Clinton as her chief strategist, the role David Axelrod played for Obama. Politico reported last week that Benenson was advising Clinton as she makes a final decision about a presidential run.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Pulling out all the stops.

Some one sees the Landscape and she is coming out guns blazing. It's Hilliary's to lose,seems to be how far will her team go to keep us Progressives at bay,or will she say F--- you and go total Wall Street.

[earthside]

2. Very elite; very establishment.

Sad to see the Democratic Party is such an uninspired state these days.

[NCTraveler]

4. By "these days" you must mean "these decades."

Did you use the words "very establishment" and "very elite" when they were working for Obamas original campaign?

[TheNutcracker]

5. I agaree. But I think the issue with progressives is more of trust. She can say anything....

What will she do as prez? We have all learned hard lessons here....of course the party will keep progressives at bay.

That is why we need Bernie Sanders to run for President. We KNOW what he'll say. We KNOW what he'll do as President. If he does not win, our voices will not have been kept at bay. Ha ha, we'll have the conversations American's have been wanting for many years now.....I'm sure of this.

[SidDithers]

3. Du rec...

Run, Hillary, Run!

Sid

[BlueStater]

6. And so it begins. *barf*

WHERE are our new generation of leaders? How come we're still depending on somebody who's been on the world stage for 23 years? You mean to tell me there's been NO ONE else in all that time who can lead the party? Still just the fucking Clintons?!?

I just...

[benz380]

7. Move over and share that bucket

Corporatists make me sick.

[BlueStater]

8. FFS, I was six years old when the Clintons first emerged on the scene in 1992.

I'm almost 30 and I'm still hearing about them more than anyone else. It makes me sick.