Robby Mook Analysis

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One of the most consequential players in the 2016 presidential election was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook. His egregious mismanagement was a key reason for the campaign’s failure, and consequently why Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval Office. If I could be any person who has been active in politics, I would choose Mook so I could correct his mistakes and set the country on a different path than that which we now find ourselves on.
The human aspect of an American election cannot be underestimated, as the public is not going to vote if they are not passionate about the candidate. In running Clinton’s campaign, Mook did not seem to take this into consideration. He focused on data and analytics of the electoral map while neglecting

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