Team Clinton worshiped at the altar and got burned.
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One of the themes in the book Shattered was that theClinton campaign got fixated on their data-rich electorate models, applying the models robot-like to allocate ad dollars, deploy field workers and schedule “market visits” by Hillary and her surrogates.
What Team Clinton seemed to have forgotten is the old Reagan adage: trust but verify.
The data models – which worked near-flawlessly for Obama – took the stage as “shiny objects” that led the Clinton campaign astray.
Politico reported a case study that illustrated the point …