McCain campaign gets new political director

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What a brilliant idea...put the guy who ran Giuliani's presidential bid into the ground (see infamous "it's all about Florida" strategy) in charge of your campaign. This is really starting to get comical.

(CNN) - 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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