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David Axelrod: “When your opponents' poll numbers are going low, you go high. But when the race is close, and it's time to slug it out.”

On the recordNovember 3, 2016
When your opponents' poll numbers are going low, you go high. But when the race is close, and it's time to slug it out.
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod discusses the strategy of campaigning based on poll numbers.

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