During visits to Iowa and New Hamshire, Clinton has met with party activists and told them that she will help rebuild the party structure that has atrophied and all but died during the Obama era.
The Democrat front-runner has stressed the importance of bolstering — and in the case of Iowa, rebuilding — the state parties from the ground up, as they received scant national attention since 2008. Some Democrats even pin the blame on the president himself.
Clinton’s pitch is especially resonant in Iowa, where her team is already encouraging rural Democrats to run for their school boards and county commissions.
Of course this will benefit her campaign and Politico has to term is self serving.....
Clinton’s stated interest in local party investment is an implicit acknowledgment of this devastation. But it’s also self-serving: Clinton will benefit from a strong party infrastructure baring her imprint in Iowa, where next February’s caucuses — a highly structured affair requiring appointed precinct captains and organizers who Clinton has started recruiting — will be the first real test of her electoral strength.
Even Howard Dean, an early supporter of Clinton's and an architect of the 50 state strategy is quoted in the article.
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This is not a strategy she used in 2008, though considering her early experience in organizing she might have......but she had some lousy advisors in 2008, that is for sure. Thanks be to Mook they are gone. She has always had that background as a traditional populist democrat and I see more and more of that coming back in her campaign style. I also see her ability to role with the punches and remain standing. She works harder than anyone and learns faster. I admire that in her.
As always I am proud to support her for President in 2016.