I'm a couple days late on this, but this WaPo piece on the inner workings of the Clinton campaign was just fascinating. There are numerous juicy bits in there, but maybe the most disturbing section deals with the campaign's inability to manage Bill Clinton. It makes the oft-repeated criticism that there will be two separate staffs walking around another Clinton White House sound very plausible.
A couple of weeks ago I watched the documentary The War Room, made in 1992 about the first Clinton presidential campaign. I wasn't all that impressed with it as a film -- I felt that it wasn't nearly as informative or revealing as it could have been with a little more context -- but it did give me a sense of how the people at the top worked with each other, and the contrast with the above article is pretty striking.
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