◼ Obama Campaign Was 'Trawling for Warm Bodies' to Fill Half-Empty Kick-Off Rally - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
“In the week or so leading up to the Obama campaign’s official kickoff rally on May 5 at Ohio State University’s basketball arena in Columbus, Obama’s campaign had put out a maximum effort to fill the Schottenstein Center’s eighteen thousand seats. Trawling for warm bodies wasn’t an exercise Team Obama had experienced much in 2008. That was Hillary’s problem.◼ Report: Obama campaign has doubts about DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz - Rachel Weiner/Washington Post
Thrush writes that the Florida House member “grated on Chicago” from the start and Obama aides thought she “struck too harsh a partisan tone” on Sunday shows. The campaign stopped scheduling her for so many TV appearances, and when she asked why, Obama staffers showed her a focus group study on Obama surrogates’ effectiveness. She ranked last.
