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Everyone should probably read it but, uff-da. This article will make you mad at the campaign. Kos noted in one of his diaries that the campaign didn’t even poll Michigan and they seemed to take a lot of votes for granted.
Michigan operatives relay stories like one about an older woman in Flint who showed up at a Clinton campaign office, asking for a lawn sign and offering to canvass, being told these were not “scientifically” significant ways of increasing the vote, and leaving, never to return. A crew of building trade workers showed up at another office looking to canvass, but, confused after being told there was no literature to hand out like in most campaigns, also left and never looked back.
“There’s this illusion that the Clinton campaign had a ground game. The deal is that the Clinton campaign could have had a ground game,” said a former Obama operative in Michigan. “They had people in the states who were willing to do stuff. But they didn’t provide people anything to do until GOTV.”
There’s a lot more and some of this is probably finger-pointing but among other things we have to start running smarter campaigns.