Had the pleasure to catch David Plouffe live & in the flesh last night at First Parish Church in Cambridge courtesy of the Harvard Book Store. Obviously he was there to promote his book, a story of the Obama campaign from the inside, but he did not shy away from speaking to either Obama’s or the Democratic Party’s agenda. It was a great talk, and I left somehow reassured that the same methodical nature that got Plouffe & Obama through the worst of the campaign is that same force that will now drive through health care & energy reform. In particular Plouffe alluded to multiple times in the campaign when (and I paraphrase here) ‘all the talking heads, all the pundits, all of our supporters said we were going about something the wrong way — but we knew that if we stuck to our strategy, and followed our data, that we would come out on top’. Interesting talk, good read: get it.
Also, there were numerous hilarious references to “my friend Sarah [Palin]” — he was not impressed that she kicked off her book tour in Michigan.
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