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A Rewired Bully Pulpit: Big, Bold and Unproven

Publication: New York Times

Sheryl Gay Stolberg
November 23, 2008

Roughly 10 million of Barack Obama’s closest friends and supporters began opening their e-mail in-boxes last Tuesday to find a message from his campaign manager, David Plouffe, labeled “Where we go from here.” In it, Mr. Plouffe asked backers to “help shape the future of this movement” by clicking to an online survey, which in turn asked them to rank four priorities in order of importance.