USA Today entrevista a Axelrod

USA Today entrevistó a David Axelrod en su último día en la Casa Blanca como "senior adviser", antes de volver a Chicago a organizar la campaña de reelección del Presidente.

Sobre el difícil equilibrio entre gobernar y hacer campaña, dice:

(...) "The president has a day job, and he's going to do that as long as he possibly can before we can count on large amounts of his time," Axelrod said. "So that's a complication." (...)

Sobre la utilización de redes sociales:

(...) "Part of our mission is to really understand where all of this is going and to make sure that we're reaching people where they are," Axelrod said. "That's even more important for us, perhaps, than for others, because so much of our support came from younger, more wired people." (...)

Sobre la recaudación de fondos:

(...) "Money is becoming more and more important," Axelrod said, a situation he called "aggravating" and one that means the formal campaign committee needs to get started soon. "Campaigns haven't gotten cheaper since the last time we ran." (...)

Sobre el rival republicano:

(...) "This is the most unfathomable Republican field in my lifetime," Axelrod said. "I don't think anybody in the media or in either party can tell you with any degree of certainty who the Republican nominee will be." (...)

Sobre lo que más le preocupa:

(...) "The things I worry about are the things we can't control," he said. "It's a dynamic world, and things can happen at any moment that can have an impact on the economy." (...)

Sobre sus dos años en la Casa Blanca:

(...) "This is an incredible place to work, and there's nothing like it," he said. "But it's a little like working in a submarine." Without spending some time in the outside world, he says, "you lose your sense of touch and feel." (...)