… [Bill] Clinton, [Jim] Messina told me, is one of the few people who can make the case for Obama among voters who still haven’t made up their minds. “They’re looking at this through an economic framework, and he’s going to be incredibly important to that discussion,” Messina said.
He’s now effective with almost every demographic. I mean, he’s in the sixties now”—meaning that more than sixty per cent of Americans view him favorably. “The current two political figures in America who have those numbers are Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama.” [cont.]
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker