The Kerry campaign continues its slow-motion collapse. After the firing of the campaign manager, Jim Jordan, two more top staffers quit in protest. Here is an amazing conference call quote from the NYT piece:
"We know and you know that Jim wasn't the problem," one aide said in recounting what one staff member told Mr. Kerry. "We want to know that you know that the problem was not Jim: You need to understand that there needs to be fundamental changes in this campaign."
If you want to know how the Dean campaign is going to destroy everyone, read the cover story profiling his manager, Joe Trippi, in this weeks' TNR (subscription required to read online). Here's a taste:
"In Washington state, God help any of the other candidates," he says. "We have such an organization up there." According to Trippi, somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people have historically turned out for the state's presidential caucuses. This past August, 15,000 people turned out to see Dean stop by a Seattle Meetup during his "Sleepless Summer Tour." "I'm standing there going like, 'Shit, we'd win the caucus today," Trippi recalls. "We'd win the statewide caucus with how many people are standing here."
Keep in mind that all this stuff happened BEFORE Dean got the endorsements of two huge, motivated unions.
Marc
Posted by thynkhard
at 10:20 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 10:24 AM EST
