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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So what are some of the differences when you don't have two Fresh new startup candidates or products, and you have like, say, a David versus Goliath type of situation. What's some of the differences? I mean, both politically and in business.
A I've been on both sides of this. I mean, I was on the, on the incumbent side with President Bush, and I was on the other side of this with Governor Romney. The parallels between oh four and 12 are pretty stark. I mean, it is a huge advantage to be the incumbent. Um, the president has a ton of money and has been building up organization for four years, has been road testing that organization in a smart way. One of the biggest criticisms, for example, of, of the 12 race of, of mid is, is, is, uh, digital and the investment in infrastructure. Well, the problem is we didn't have the money to invest in infrastructure in both field and on the data side because we were broke, you know, and we had four months over the summer to try to redo all that sort of stuff, to build out a field, full field program, to invest in data and technology. Well, four months, When the president and his team had been spending four years, in fact, eight years running for president, and they'd done a great job, and they used that to their advantage. Data and technology and field operations mattered. The Obama campaign had plenty of lead time to build that organization out, to road test it, and try different things, and one of the things they did really smartly was they learned about this whole concept of virtual precincts, and generally, precincts are neighborhoods, right? You've organized, you have one pers…
AI assessment note: “it is a huge advantage to be the incumbent. Um, the president has a ton”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q I hear the similarities that there's some lessons to be learned from campaigns or just thinking about them as the same type of thing, like getting to a vote, getting to someone to pick you essentially, or you pick your product, but break it down for me at the very basic level. What's the product here?
A The product is the candidate. I mean, in politics, the product really is the candidate. Now the advantage you have in business is that the product is innate and you can improve it and control it completely. Uh, in politics, you can't control the The candidate, because it's a person, obviously, and they've got to learn and grow, and they're going to have their moments, but the product is the candidate, and that's what you have to build off of, and then you essentially have an organization, and it's a business organization, just like you have on the business side. I mean, you have a strategy team that's setting up in terms of what is the overall strategy of the campaign, the resource allocation decisions have to be made. There's a political department, which is essentially the marketing department, you know, not exactly one-to-one, but it's very much similarity. You have a communications team that is Doing all the PR and the outreach, dealing with reporters and helping build the narrative. You have an administrative team that's taking care of all the legal and all of the, you know, compliance issues and everything under the sun and how the actual organization runs. And don't forget the finance team raising the money of finance team. I mean, it's a big business, but political campaign really is the ultimate startup. You come in with nothing and you have to basically build a organi…
AI assessment note: “The product is the candidate. I mean, in politics, the product really is the candidate.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So what are some of the differences when you don't have two Fresh new startup candidates or products, and you have like, say, a David versus Goliath type of situation. What's some of the differences? I mean, both politically and in business.
A I've been on both sides of this. I mean, I was on the, on the incumbent side with President Bush, and I was on the other side of this with Governor Romney. The parallels between oh four and 12 are pretty stark. I mean, it is a huge advantage to be the incumbent. Um, the president has a ton of money and has been building up organization for four years, has been road testing that organization in a smart way. One of the biggest criticisms, for example, of, of the 12 race of, of mid is, is, is, uh, digital and the investment in infrastructure. Well, the problem is we didn't have the money to invest in infrastructure in both field and on the data side because we were broke, you know, and we had four months over the summer to try to redo all that sort of stuff, to build out a field, full field program, to invest in data and technology. Well, four months, When the president and his team had been spending four years, in fact, eight years running for president, and they'd done a great job, and they used that to their advantage. Data and technology and field operations mattered. The Obama campaign had plenty of lead time to build that organization out, to road test it, and try different things, and one of the things they did really smartly was they learned about this whole concept of virtual precincts, and generally, precincts are neighborhoods, right? You've organized, you have one pers…
AI assessment note: “it is a huge advantage to be the incumbent”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q I hear the similarities that there's some lessons to be learned from campaigns or just thinking about them as the same type of thing, like getting to a vote, getting to someone to pick you essentially, or you pick your product, but break it down for me at the very basic level. What's the product here?
A The product is the candidate. I mean, in politics, the product really is the candidate. Now the advantage you have in business is that the product is innate and you can improve it and control it completely. Uh, in politics, you can't control the The candidate, because it's a person, obviously, and they've got to learn and grow, and they're going to have their moments, but the product is the candidate, and that's what you have to build off of, and then you essentially have an organization, and it's a business organization, just like you have on the business side. I mean, you have a strategy team that's setting up in terms of what is the overall strategy of the campaign, the resource allocation decisions have to be made. There's a political department, which is essentially the marketing department, you know, not exactly one-to-one, but it's very much similarity. You have a communications team that is Doing all the PR and the outreach, dealing with reporters and helping build the narrative. You have an administrative team that's taking care of all the legal and all of the, you know, compliance issues and everything under the sun and how the actual organization runs. And don't forget the finance team raising the money of finance team. I mean, it's a big business, but political campaign really is the ultimate startup. You come in with nothing and you have to basically build a organi…
AI assessment note: “The product is the candidate. I mean, in politics, the product really is the candidate.”
