Leave those campaigners behind

The presidential candidates better start thinking like they won the election now. At a discussion at the Center for American Progress Monday, former presidential warned against mixing campaign staffs and governing staffs. “The people that just came off 21 months of campaigning are completely out of gas,” said Clay Johnson, deputy director of the White House Office of Budget and Management and widely noted as the reason for Bush’s smooth transition in 2001. Those that “focused on getting you 51 percent of the votes … are not good people to plan how you will look to 100 percent” of America.

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