Hillary's Team 2016

RANK		PLAYER	TEAM	RISING OR FALLING
1		CHARLOTTE CLINTON MEZVINSKY Told you we like babies the most! As Rand Paul is to doctor, Hillary Clinton is to grandma.	Clinton	▲
2		JOHN PODESTA Closest thing to a Wise Person in the Beltway Democratic Party.	Inveterate Insider	▲
3		JOEL BENENSON Obama's whiz pollster makes a home in Brooklyn -- and he's about as far from Mark Penn in disposition as you can get.	Obama	▲
4		ROBBY MOOK The young campaign manager who worked miracles on the Terry McAuliffe campaign should bring the magic as long as he stays off email listserves.	Obama
5		HUMA ABEDIN Lifetime friend and trusted right-hand woman; is of talismanic importance to Hillary.	Clinton
6		PHILIPPE REINES Will be the last guy in the Hillary Clinton foxhole; universally reviled by the press he's supposed to deal with.	Clinton	▼
7		JENNIFER PALMIERI Genial Podesta protégé has seen fire and rain as an ex-John Edwards flack.	Inveterate Insider	▲
8		KRISTINA SCHAKE Turned Michelle Obama into a spunky everywoman -- can she work her magic again?	Obama	▲
9 (TIE)		MANDY GRUNWALD & JIM MARGOLIS This is the new ads team. Grunwald's been Team Hillary from the beginning and will join with frenemy Margolis, who handled Obama last time.	Clinton/Obama
10		MELANNE VERVEER Shoulder to lean on for the last 30+ years.	Clinton
11		KAREN FINNEY Former DNC flack and MSNBC host with good younger Beltway connections.	Inveterate Insider	▲
12		NICK MERRILL Hillary's main press flack -- who is so good at turning the attention to Hillary, we couldn't even find a photo of him -- will invariably be by her side in the biggest campaign of her life.	Clinton	▲
13		CHELSEA CLINTON If Hillary is going to young it up, she needs Chelsea to emerge as a star. Elle magazine is already on the case.	Clinton
14		BILL CLINTON Bill says he's not a good campaigner anymore, and has promised be a quiet adviser -- we'll see.	Clinton

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