Turns out that Barack Obama's organization in North Carolina is headed up by Craig Schirmer, a UW-Madison graduate who also served as state director of Obama's Wisconsin primary campaign. MSNBC gave Schirmer much credit for the get-out-the-vote campaign that gave Obama a resounding victory in South Carolina.
Obama's NC Communications Director is Dan Leistikow, Jim Doyle's former press secretary and communications director. A more complete list of Barack's North Carolina operation can be found here.
North Carolina was originally thought to be a cakewalk for Obama, but now Hillary Clinton thinks she has the Wright stuff to narrow her opponent's margin of victory or even score an upset. The Los Angeles Times today does a profile on Clinton's NC State Director Averell "Ace" Smith, a hard-nosed PR guru known for employing brutal "opposition research" tactics. In the L.A. Times piece, a Democratic strategist compares political operatives in general and Smith specifically to fictional mafia thugs:
"Some people are Fredos; at game time they disappear. There are Sonnys, who yell and scream. . . . The most effective ones are the Michael Corleones. Very quiet, they know under which rib to insert the knife. . . . Ace is a Michael Corleone."
A more complete list of Hillary's North Carolina consiglieres can be found here.
The primary election is on Tuesday. Can Barack's Badgers beat the Clinton Family headed by Consigliere Ace? My prediction: Badgers 54, Clinton Family 46.
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