David Plouffe, who manged Obama’s campaign and wrote about it in The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory, is trying to generate interest in his book by utilizing the left’s hatred of Palin to his advantage:It will be interesting to see if the lefties will let themselves be used this way (I doubt it). Right now the ranking of the book is 189 on Amazon, will it go to number 1 tomorrow (knocking Palin out of her current spot)? We shall see. Smart move if it works, really sad if it doesn’t. So far 55.7% of those taking the poll at Huffington Post see the move as “desperate.”(via)

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