CNN: McCain campaign gets new political director ...

07.07.08 -- 6:05 AM

By Wes Prescott

CNN's Political Ticker is reporting that McCain has tapped Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager Mike DuHaime to serve as his new political director ...

In one of his first moves to centralize control of McCain's political
organization, Steve Schmidt has tapped Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager,
Mike DuHaime, to be McCain's new political director, a top campaign adviser
tells CNN.

Until last week, McCain had no political director at headquarters –
highly unusual for a general election campaign. Mccain's campaign instead
relied on 11 regional campaign managers — a structure many Republicans in and
outside of the McCain campaign, including Schmidt, considered unworkable.

After formally taking control of the political operation last week,
Schmidt decided to put a political director in place to oversee the state and
regional operations.

Duhaime went to work as an adviser to McCain at headquarters not long
after Giuliani dropped his primary bid.

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