Former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod has a memoir coming out next week, and you can rest assured that it has the requisite gossipy tidbits (Obama briefly considered putting Hillary Clinton on the Supreme Court, Steve Jobs showed him an iPhone before it came out, etc.). According to the Daily News, the book also reveals what Mitt Romney said when he called Obama to concede in 2012. Axelrod says Obama was “unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over.” Apparently, Romney was already working out his dubious claim that Obama won by bestowing “gifts” on minorities and young people. “‘You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,’ in other words, black people,’” Obama said, paraphrasing Romney’s remarks. “That’s what he thinks this was all about.”
