Friday, February 29, 2008

SPR Inside The Numbers: Hillary Clinton Demise A Warning To Barack Obama, John McCain

By Matt Towery, Southern Political Report ~ Newsweek's online edition recently featured a piece by former White House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan. He, along with Jody Powell, Jerry Rafshoon, Pat Caddell and others engineered the come-from-nowhere victory of Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential contest against Gerald Ford.

Jordan wrote in Newsweek: "I consider the Obama operation the most brilliant political campaign of my lifetime."

I take issue with Jordan, if for the ironic reason that I consider Carter's victory in 1976 to be the most brilliant campaign in modern history.

Read all of Matt's column at http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/.

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