By A. Shaw
On Nov. 12, Bernie Sanders chose Tad Devine to run his campaign for US president. Tad Devine is highly experienced and highly trained to run Sanders’ campaign.
Tad Devine emphasizes the role of paid media in his political consulting. If Devine does a paid media operation against Clinton, Devine will do something like what Obama did in 2012. And Sanders will likely win and Clinton lose.
Beating Hillary isn’t that hard.
But will these paid media tactics work against the GOP crackpots or deranged tea bags.
To beat the GOPs or the tea bags, Devine will have to train volunteers who in turn will train the base in the art of campaign tactics. Devine has written several books on how the training of the volunteers and the volunteer training of the base can be done.
Obama ran this type of operation in 2008 using the consulting skills of David Axelrod and the example of Howard Dean.
Devine has taught his theories about the campaign committee training volunteers and volunteers training the base in tactics, at the finest universities of the USA.
But per se, college students are not volunteers. Per se, college students are more often dead-dog anarchists than living political operatives.
So, can Tad Devine apply his theories on campaign volunteers rather than on dead-dog college students.
There is a difference between a college student in a campaign and a college student in a classroom.