The prime target of the Clintons’ ire, according to Glenn and Annie, is pollster Joel Benenson, a key cog of both of President Obama’s successful races — although the reporting duo note that the most likely scenario is no one getting fired but rather people getting layered over.

Clinton, for her part, gave a sort of non-denial denial of the piece in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “I have no idea what they’re talking about or who they are talking to,” Clinton said. “We’re going to take stock, but it’s going to be the campaign that I’ve got.”

I don’t spend every day inside the Clinton campaign. So, I can’t say that an addition here or a subtraction there would make a big difference in how the campaign operates or how effective Clinton’s messaging is on the campaign trail. But here’s what I do know: The lone, major common thread between the 2008 campaign and the 2016 campaign is Hillary (and Bill) Clinton. Which raises that most uncomfortable of possible explanations for the problems experienced by Hillary Clinton in her two presidential campaigns: It’s the candidate.