"What surprised me was that Obama was clearly thinking more seriously about picking Hillary Clinton than Ax and I had realized," Plouffe wrote, describing a meeting the three had in late spring of last year when it became clear Obama would be the party's standard-bearer.
Plouffe said that by early August, Obama had narrowed his list down to Sen. Joe Biden -- now vice president -- along with Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Plouffe also wrote that "we had initially received a lot of advice from many of her (Clinton) supporters to pick her, though this 'advice' was perhaps more accurately described as subtle pressure."
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