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Obama's Communications Director on Diet Coke, Pundits, and What's Next
Q: What didn’t you expect going into this? And what happened—what surprised you?
I was surprised the primaries took as long as it did. It was our great hope they would not last six months, and I’m surprised, I mean, I have no idea what’s going to happen tonight, but I’m pleasantly surprised that we are in as good a situation as we are in tonight heading into the election. We’ve done everything we thought we could do, we’ve left, as far as I can tell, no stone unturned, and feel very calm about what comes next.
Q: Is there a sort of moment that summed up the election for you? An iconic moment?
An iconic moment.
Q: That’s usually the writer’s job to figure out but I thought I’d ask you.
This has been—filled with highs and, I could say any number, but I think, seeing Barack Obama last night in Virginia, the capital of the Old South, in front of nearly 100,000 people in one of his final campaign rallies, was sort of the great conclusion to everything we’ve done. One of the goals was to go where Democrats hadn’t gone before, to reach out to people that Democrats hadn’t reached out to before, and there we were actually having accomplished that fact, regardless of what the outcome is.
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