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...state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all. Sitting nearby, veteran Democratic insider Harold M. Ickes, who had helped write those rules, was horrified - and let Penn know it. "How can it possibly be," Ickes asked, "that the much vaunted chief strategist doesn't understand proportional allocation?" And yet the strategy remained the same, with the campaign making its bet on big-state victories. Even...
...Harold M. Ickes was midway through a typical profanity-laced cell-phone call on the inch-by-inch battle for the Democratic presidential nomination recently, when he peered over his glasses and demanded, "This call is off the record...
...When Losing Which is an ironic comment, to say the least, since Harold McEwen Ickes has done so much over the past 30 years to make this moment possible. Son of an irascible Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cabinet member (whose nickname was the Old Curmudgeon), the younger Ickes was raised in the Washington bubble of his time--but he migrated West, worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Northern California and harbored little interest in the kind of work done by his father, who died when the boy was 12. That changed in the summer of 1964, after graduating from...
...delegates to her than to Obama. Ickes has been in charge of those negotiations too. "Everyone over there was pretty much convinced this thing was finished," says another senior Clinton adviser, referring to the somber mood at Hillary's campaign headquarters. "We were going through the motions. But not Harold. He's been focused on those delegates like a madman. And there's a chance it may actually...
Would he work for the ultimate insurgent, Obama, if this last-ditch effort on Hillary's behalf falls short? Ickes says he would, "although not with the same intensity." As if, for Harold Ickes, that were even possible...