Gore is even credited with changing Bill's mind on Bosnia by making a husky appeal based on his daughter's TV-watching. I don't think that will make it into the second draft on recent history. I think that this effort to deconstruct authorship is largely piffle. The spin was in place before the idea had been shaped. No one with his access, his insight, his experience.
Access is all.
Analysis and criticism are nowhere. For Woodward, campaign officials and pollsters and image-carpenters are all who they say they are. This by contrast, for example, with campaign donors, who make no appearance in the book at all unless you count one passing reference to Dwayne Andreas. They are measuring points for the country that call forth a range of questions which each candidate must try to address. In the private and public actions of the candidates are embedded their best answers.