Reportedly, Democrats are “worried Clinton’s hires for the top echelons of her pre-campaign haven’t taken gender and racial diversity into account.” The Daily Beast,
Their concern started after early leaks about heavy hitters recruited for the likely 2016 presidential candidate’s proto-campaign all had two distinct things in common: they were white and male…
Clinton’s staff is only going to make diversity a factor in hiring “if they feel pressure on it,” said a Democratic strategist…
The frustrations over racial and gender diversity are especially acute among those staffers who worked on the most recent Obama campaign. Many of them found that women and minority staffers were not elevated to the very top rungs of the campaign structure—nor did they receive nearly enough credit for its eventual success.
One post-campaign retrospective from Rolling Stone drew particular ire—it pointed out ten of the Obama campaign’s ‘real heroes,’ nine of whom were men.
