Subject: Re: Perhaps I am missing something...
From: David Axelrod <[email-masked]>
To: "Harwood, John (NBCUniversal)" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, David Plouffe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 23:04:21 -0400

Agree.  In fact, he was by no means the candidate of the Left in the nominating fight.

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> On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Harwood, John (NBCUniversal) <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> They were competing at different stages of realignment with substantially different electorates. Clinton held onto vestiges of the old solid South he himself couldn't win today. Obama expanded the map at least as much
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> was Obama really much further left in relation to where the country is than Clinton was in relation to the country then? Don't think so
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> 
> John Harwood 
> CNBC/NYT
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> On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:11 PM, David Axelrod <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> Obama carried Virginia and Indiana, the first Dem to do so since 1964.
>> He got a higher percentage of white votes in 2008 than any Dem since Bill Clinton.  
>> And our message was very broad.
>> 2012 was different, obviously, because of the four years we had been through.  
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 6, 2015, at 9:09 PM, Harwood, John (NBCUniversal) <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>>> ...but it seems to me the idea in this story that Bill Clinton ran broad centrist "50-state" campaign and Obama ran narrow "liberal" campaign is ridiculous on its face: http://nyti.ms/1AVmBTS
>>> 
>>> Yes, Bill Clinton of Arkansas won some Southern states and Colorado and Montana with help from Ross Perot on way to 370 EVs in 1992.
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>>> But was his campaign really more expansive than that of the black guy who won VA and NC and IN, 50%+ of popular vote (twice) and 365 EVs in 2008?
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>>> 
>>> John Harwood 
>>> CNBC/NYT
>>> 202 669 0751