The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
Don Surber (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama’s campaign outed John Edwards on his $400 haircuts, his campaign manager reported. “We did much less of this [opposition research] than other campaigns did, but there were times we indulged — it was our researchers who found John Edwards’s infamous $400 haircut expenditures,” David Plouffe wrote in his book. Well, [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
"It's easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit-for-tat that consumes our politics; the bickering that none of us are immune to, and that trivializes the profound issues -- two wars, an economy in recession, a planet in peril," then-Sen. Barack Obama said last April, on the night he lost Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton. That...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's probably a good thing for Kendrick Meek that Steve Hildebrand is no longer on the campaign. Otherwise this revelation in David Plouffe's book, The Audacity to Win, about what happened after the DNC stripped away Florida's delegates could be...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Dede Scozzafava's exit from a major campaign gave readers a perfect glimpse into the double standard applied by the media when it comes to women in politics. The World Newser, official blog of ABC's World News Tonight, ran an article November 2 lamenting Scozzafava suspending her campaign curtly titled "Message to the GOP - 'Moderates Need Not Apply.'" The piece quoted three people sympathetic...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tuesday’s election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic party. Not only did the Obama coalition of young voters and minorities not return to the polls (African-American turnout fell from 20 to 16 percent of the electorate in Virginia, for example, while the youth vote fell by 50 percent from 2008), but independents abandoned Obama’s favored candidates in droves....
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A special message from Obama for America Campaign Manager David Plouffe: One year ago today, you made history. We all knew that electing Barack Obama President was only the opportunity to bring about change; that we would all have to keep working to fulfill the promise our victory offered. And you've come through -- by making hundreds of thousands of calls to Congress to push health reform forward,...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe takls to ABC's Aaron Katersky.
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Teresa H. in Henderson, Nevada: I was a Neighborhood Team Leader, active the whole cycle, and took off from work the last three weeks before Election Day to launch canvasses from my garage. On the last Sunday evening before election day, my field organizer and two other volunteers were in my garage, tallying the day's completed walk packets when my phone rang. It was David Plouffe on a national...
The Note (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It was a rough night for Democrats who, one year ago, were triumphant in their quest for the White House. David Plouffe -- the political operative largely responsible for President Obama’s historic victory in 2008 -- tells ABC News the energy of that campaign does not necessarily transfer to other democrats.
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Horserace (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Campaign Manager Shrugs Off Big Election Losses, Says President Hasn't Lost the Fire in His Belly
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayEarlier today, Arianna Huffington had quite the conversation starter: that after reading Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's new book, "The Audacity to Win," she believes the first year of Obama's presidency can be summed up with this title instead -- "The Timidity to Govern." She wrote: Indeed, reading the book, I often found myself wondering what Candidate...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign advisor, dismissed the notion that VA, NJ and NY could be bellweathers for 2010 on the Today Show:These are local races, there's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next November.You'd...
This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
From the forthcoming David Plouffe book:Sometime after the South Carolina debate Plouffe got a call from a senior Edwards Advisor who said Edwards was willing to announce the end of his campaign and join forces with Obama to defeat Clinton. When Plouffe asked if he could raise this with Obama the Edwards advisor said, “Yes.…Just to be clear we’re going to talk to the Clinton people...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It seems that the moratorium on appearances by White House officers on the Fox News Channel has ended. But high-ranking Democratic officials continue to peddle false information about the cable network, leveling unsupported charges of bias and political favoritism against it. Noel Sheppard reported last week that Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs...
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