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BootinUp

(47,171 posts)
Sat May 21, 2016, 07:01 PM May 2016

Pretty good article on WJC

or maybe I'm just a Clinton shill, lol. Just some snips its a long read.

Under the radar, Bill Clinton finds his voice as a supporting actor


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This is the invisi-Bill campaign. The former president who flickers occasionally on cable news channels remains a big draw on the off-Broadway circuit of presidential politics. It is a low-altitude tactical deployment that leaves a light footprint, aiming to maximize his value as a political asset without stirring the negatives that also trail him.

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Clinton almost never takes questions from his audiences. Instead, when he is finished speaking, he wades into them, lingering at the security barricades until the last person who wants one gets a selfie, a hug or an empathetic ear.

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And he gathers intelligence. Campaign officials say he is in constant contact with Hillary’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters, sending back reports of what he is hearing from donors, activists and ordinary voters.

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Charlie Baker, Hillary’s state director there, got a call from Tina Flournoy, Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, asking whether Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern might arrange an election-eve rally with the former president in McGovern’s working-class hometown of Worcester.

But there was a catch: Clinton wanted to do it at 11:30 p.m.

As the clock ticked into election day, the former president lit a fire with the crowd in Massachusetts’s second-largest city, Baker said. “We probably would have lost Worcester if he hadn’t come.”

When the polls closed, Hillary Clinton had edged out Sanders by less than two points in the Bay State.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-the-radar-bill-clinton-finds-his-voice-as-a-supporting-actor/2016/05/21/da2de078-1dda-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html

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