In an interview with David Remnick in The New Yorker, 2008 Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said that a 2012 Sarah Palin presidential nomination would be “catastrophic” for the GOP, but adds that he “doubts she’ll run.”Plouffe’s comments amount to a consensus between campaign managers of the last two major party nominees: McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt said in October that nominating Palin would be “catastrophic” also, though he conceded that Palin had “talents.”
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