Obama to Centralize Democratic Party Strategy
The head can’t trust the fingers. From the New York Times:
Our own political operation will be more rigorously in communication with the other elements, so we can compare notes,” Mr. Axelrod said. “What we learned from Massachusetts is that we need to be more assiduous about getting our own data and our own information so we have a better sense of where things stand.
I guess that means that the Obama camp didn’t really take-over the DNC in 2009. Also no more front porch campaigning:
The White House intends to send Mr. Obama out into the country considerably more in 2010 than during his first year in office, advisers said, to try to rekindle the relationship he developed with voters during his presidential campaign.
At the moment, this reads like a concerted effort to mobilize core Democrats at the expense of allowing local heterogeneity.
