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Secret Clinton Campaign Plans - (Original Post) MineralMan May 2016 OP
Shhhhhh JonathanRackham May 2016 #1
Well...duh... MineralMan May 2016 #2
Just look back to 2008.... AgingAmerican May 2016 #3
 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
3. Just look back to 2008....
Mon May 30, 2016, 01:38 PM
May 2016

Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton’s loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency. What follows is the inside account of how the campaign for the seemingly unstoppable Democratic nominee came into being, and then came apart.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/09/the-front-runner-s-fall/306944/

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