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Rumor: Chicago "Shake Up" as Team Obama Gets Nervous

oscopino Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 2:26 PM
The debate would be the iceing on the cake... the underlying reason is that obama has been a total failure. I have actually come across people who voted obama last time who intend to vote Romney this time however I have not - and bet you haven't either - come across anyone who voted McCain last time and is now considering votin obama...

The plot thickens.  "Shake ups" generally do not occur inside campaigns that believe they are winning; they're reset buttons to change the trajectory of races:
 

"The cold hand of fear grabbing Chicago."  


Todd reports that some of Obama's "sharpest communicators" from 2008 are being called back into service, but who would those people be?  Gibbs, Axelrod, Messina, Plouffe...they're all still around.  Bill Burton's missing this time (we know what

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