Advice to Democrats: get ready. The McCain camp is about to enter a new, more professional phase. It won’t be the same campaign with these skillful operatives. Some learned from Karl Rove. Some were the most talented operatives from campaigns that fought McCain. The operative words are: experienced, skillful and seasoned.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.