The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Holiday season means lots of retail shopping, and, not to be left out of the frenzy, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has announced a grand opening sale for its new online store , replete with fleece blankets, mugs, and signed copies of Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe's book, "The Audacity to Win." Only DCCC supporters, however, will get the grand opening buy-one-item-get-one-half-off...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroIn August of 2008, Bloomberg News headlined one of their stories this way: "Harvard? Yale? No, Delaware School Is New Epicenter of Politics." That's because both Steve Schmidt (who ran day-to-day operations for the McCain campaign), David Plouffe (Obama's campaign manager), as well as Obama's vice presidential running mate Joe Biden all attended the University...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In his new book The Audacity to Win, Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe recalls that Sen. John McCain's selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate was a fundraising boon -- for the Obama campaign.
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Interesting interview with Obama's campaign Manager David Plouffe... PR.com: Tell me a little bit about the Superdelegate situation. During the campaign a lot of people were confused by it because it almost seemed like two separate races. David Plouffe: This has never really factored into an election, because Kerry and Gore, they won pretty early. There’s elected officials and party leaders...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Obama campaign guru David Plouffe comes for a visit and gives his hope-y vision for Texas as a swing state. [Plouffe] says Texas could soon become a swing state and drastically alter the landscape of state and national politics. To that end, Plouffe is urging candidates to use the Obama model for winning elections, which involves heavy [...]
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This afternoon, I had a chance to participate in a conference call with David Plouffe, concerning his new book and the Obama campaign. My question for Plouffe focused on the moments where the campaign appeared to engage in top-down behavior, despite its reputation as a vast grassroots organization. Citing incidents such as the Joe Anthony MySpace controversy , ), the de-funding of the 527s , the replacement...
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From David Plouffe: After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, we have the winner of the Organizing for America Health Reform Video Challenge. The winning video shows that our supporters' creativity and passion is more than a match for the slick ads and partisan spin doctors on the other side. In the next few days, we'll be using this video as the basis for...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
According to Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe, yes. According to Edwards campaign senior adviser Joe Trippi, no (or at least he didn't know about it.) TPM's Chrinstina Bellantoni reported last night that, in his new book "Audacity to Win," Plouffe writes that a "senior Edwards adviser" called before the South Carolina primary to suggest that the two announce they were joining...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
David Plouffe's claim in his new book on Campaign 2008 that the Edwards camp suggested he be made Veep in exchange for dropping out of the race is accurate, the Edwards adviser who had the conversation with Plouffe tells me. As you know, Plouffe's book offers the fascinating revelation that just before the South Carolina primary, a senior Edwards adviser offered him a swap: Edwards would drop out of...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
One of the most interesting claims from David Plouffe's new book is that John Edwards' team offered him a secret deal before the South Carolina primary: Edwards would drop out if he were made the vice presidential candidate. However, in several emails to Greg Sargent , senior Edwards adviser Joe Trippi challenged Plouffe's claim, saying that Edwards really wanted the Attorney General slot.
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In a piece by David Renmick in the New Yorker there's any interesting quote by David Plouffe, the Obama Campaign manager, about perhaps a dark horse candidate emerging to win the GOP Presidential nomination. Mr. Plouffe suggests that "we ought to learn from the Obama experience that someone can come out, not someone you've never heard of but someone who you just didn't think would run for President."...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The other tell-all book being released is Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe's aptly named The Audacity to Win . Today, Ben Smith of Politico had a confession to make well because it was about to be divulged anyway. Smith's source for the John Edwards $400 haircut story was the Obama campaign. Here's the original post from March 2007 entitled The Hair's Too Perfect : Well, John Edwards' campaign...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
David Plouffe, President Obama's former campaign manager, is just full of revelations -- or at least his new book, "The Audacity to Win," is. The latest has to do with a little bit of backroom wheeling and dealing that hadn't been disclosed before now. It seems that, during the Democratic primaries, former Sen. John Edwards' campaign decided he couldn't win the nomination earlier than they...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In his new book, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe reveals that as John Edwards' campaign was fading heading into the South Carolina primary, a top Edwards adviser went to both the Obama and Clinton campaigns offering up the Edwards endorsement...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As Barack Obama's presidency stumbles through its first year, some of his supporters are wondering what ever happened to the "No Drama Obama" of those heady days of the campaign. For example, Steve Clemons , unhappy about the demise of ultra-liberal White House Counsel Greg Craig, writes that Craig's fall and the leaks associated with it stand in sharp contrast to the internal vow of key...
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