At the end of last week, in an article about the reasons why the Republican nominee's team simply hadn't expected to lose, Slate's John Dickerson reported: Romney advisers … envy [Obama's] ability to leverage the presidency for his campaign.
The Republican nominee's team is citing the influx of cash as a sign that the party base has been energised by the decision and that the issue will play a central role in November's White House election.
Likewise, our presumptive nominee's team continues, even just within the past few days, its well-worn practice of racking up spectacular unforced errors.
Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is teaming stars from soap operas and "Sex and the City" with congresswomen in contested states.
"Any norm of deference to the president for executive branch nominees ('his team') was nearly shredded by Republicans during the Obama years," she said.
In a Washington Post interview over the weekend, Mr. Clinton offered cursory praise for his party's presumed nominee; the Obama team has made it clear that Mrs. Clinton isn't likely to become his running mate.
Mr. Schmidt said that this time around the nominee and his team would need to start the search and vetting much earlier and ask more probing questions intended to gauge the ability of the possible choices to think on their feet, master complex information and provide assurance they could handle the presidency if it came to that.
But Dan Schnur, a Republican consultant who worked in the primary for Mr. Simon's principal opponent, former Mayor Richard J. Riordan of Los Angeles, said of the nominee's campaign team: "It's clearly taking them some time to shift out of primary mode and into general-election mode.
In basketball, where he scored 1600 points, he was a four-time All-scholastic athlete and two-time conference Most Valuable Player as well as a McDonald's All-American team nominee.
The hacked emails of campaign chairman John Podesta, being released daily by WikiLeaks, have offered unprecedented insight into the way the Democratic nominee and her team grappled with unexpected developments and self-inflicted setbacks.
