David Axelrod: 'The Whole Race Is About Polls, It’s About Money, and Less About People'
CJR interviews the former strategist, current podcaster.
CJR’s David Uberti interviews campaign-strategist-turned-pundit David Axelrod about his podcast series, The Axe Files. The turn toward CNN commentary and political interviews is more of a homecoming than a fresh new thing for Axelrod, even if some of the forms are new.
Uberti asks Axelrod to compare the then and now of political reporting, and Axelrod harkens back to the beginning of his professional life, when he was a Chicago Tribune reporter and columnist, to describe what has changed in the interim:
One of the things that’s striking to me is how much political reporting has changed since I was writing for The Tribune.
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