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Which is good for Obama.
For what it's worth, and it's just my opinion, I was less than thrilled with Mr. McClurkin in the entourage here recently and were I in charge of Senator Obama's campaign, a stern letter would be hand-delivered to Mr. McClurkin informing him that his services would no longer be needed for the duration of the campaign onward into the distant, distant future.
That said, I stood with county heavy hitters and watched the C-Span screen as Obama delivered the keynote address in 2004 from Boston. My colleagues that evening were hard-bitten realists who have seen campaigns come and go. They were stupefied by Obama's address, and justifiably so. It was a masterpiece. Evan Bayh's keynote address at a prior convention was polished and competent and as dull as pitch. Obama shook the rafters.
Today's poll out of Iowa suggests uplift for Obama's campaign nationally because so much depends on Iowa specifically. In any case, the yacking about the demise of his campaign is premature, IMO. It seems to me that he remains extremelly competitive.
It's my guess that the Clinton campaign is aware of that competitiveness.
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