Campaign 2012 Tidbits (2 of 16): Summer 2011 focus groups.

From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down – Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), p. 40:

[The perception of Obama’s weakness due to the intransigence of Congress] showed up in his campaign’s focus groups [in the summer of 2011], where a startling number of people would cite Lyndon Johnson’s ability to twist arms and get his way and ask why Obama couldn’t do the same.

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(My mom actually said this at the time!)