{"id":19920,"date":"2017-02-21T04:41:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19920"},"modified":"2017-02-21T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:41:37","slug":"robby-mook-campaign-loser-lands-on-his-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19920","title":{"rendered":"Robby Mook: campaign loser lands on his feet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19921\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mook.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I occasionally become amazed at how failed political operatives have this way of continuing to land on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>They lose national elections and yet the TV news networks &#8212; cable and broadcast &#8212; seek them out for their &#8220;expert analysis&#8221; on all things political.<\/p>\n<p>Robby Mook is the latest such example of that.<\/p>\n<p>It puzzles me a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Mook managed Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign. Clinton was the prohibitive <em>favorite<\/em> to win that election. Every pundit from coast to coast to coast said she&#8217;d clobber Donald J. Trump. Some of them predicted a landslide &#8230; for <em>Hillary!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, it didn&#8217;t happen. She lost, albeit narrowly. Sure, she won the popular vote and finished ahead of Trump by about 2 percentage points, which is about where the polls had pegged it.<\/p>\n<p>However, the campaign missed a number of key strategic opportunities in critical Rust Belt states. Trump captured those traditional Democratic strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to blame for all of that? You&#8217;ve got to lay it squarely in the lap of the campaign manager. Mook called the shots. He ran the show. He was supposed to ensure his candidate won. It was his job to make sure Hillary spent her time where it counted the most.<\/p>\n<p>He blew it, <em>bigly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How does this guy hold up as an expert?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait! He&#8217;s &#8220;telegenic.&#8221; That&#8217;s got to be it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally become amazed at how failed political operatives have this way of continuing to land on their feet. They lose national elections and yet the TV news networks &#8212; cable and broadcast &#8212; seek them out for their &#8220;expert analysis&#8221; on all things political. Robby Mook is the latest such example of that. 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