{"id":4414,"date":"2008-05-13T00:50:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/13\/speculating-about-the-post-campaign-negotiation\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T00:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T08:10:13","slug":"speculating-about-the-post-campaign-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4414","title":{"rendered":"Speculating About The Post-Campaign Negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2008\/05\/08\/deal\/print.html\">Salon<\/a>, a Democratic speechwriter discusses post-campaign negotiations (using the example of Chuck Robb vs. Doug Wilder in Virginia, a campaign he was involved with), and speculates over what kind of concessions Clinton may want the Obama campaign to make in exchange for peace. Here&#8217;s an interesting speculation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A Major Platform Win<\/strong>. Namely, healthcare. Hillary needs to be able to make the case that her campaign had a substantive impact on the race. The best way to do that is to get to write the party&#8217;s healthcare plank in the platform. If Obama folds on the mandate issue, Hillary walks away with a policy win. Plus, this would please John and Elizabeth Edwards. Choosing Elizabeth to write the healthcare plank of the platform could appease both camps. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s stand against (some) mandates is fully as embarassing as Clinton&#8217;s stand on the gas tax holiday; this is a point that he can, and should, concede to Clinton once the primary is over.<\/p>\n<p>The essay also points out that Democrats have come together after even worse primary-season splits than what we&#8217;ve seen this year, and done it surprisingly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, I hadn&#8217;t realized that such post-campaign negotiations were so normal a part of the process; live and learn. Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/building-peace-by-digby-heres.html\">Digby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Salon, a Democratic speechwriter discusses post-campaign negotiations (using the example of Chuck Robb vs. Doug Wilder in Virginia, a campaign he was involved with), and speculates over what kind of concessions Clinton may want the Obama campaign to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}