Harold Clark Malchow Jr. (4 November 1951 – 21 March 2024) was an American political consultant, securities lawyer, and author.

[1] He received a Juris Doctor degree from University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in 1981[9] and passed The Mississippi Bar the same year.

[9] Early in 1987, Malchow was arrested with two other Americans in a Peru international airport, after being accused by a customs agent for possessing cocaine.

[11] Malchow's political involvement began in college, and led a few unsuccessful campaigns before a successful one with Al Gore.

He worked for multiple organizations, including the United Auto Workers,[6] the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and EMILY's List.

Malchow was the head of Mississippi First's fundraising, where he requested donor lists from the previous living governors, and manually entered every name into an Apple II.

[1][6] Malchow was hired at the Tennessee Democratic Party as a temporary executive secretary in late 1983, before becoming Gore's campaign manager.

Malchow devised solicitations that could be mailed to readers of particular magazines and donors to causes, saying that they "had to be a four-page letter, and it had to go in an envelope" to be effective.

"[6] Though he shut down MSHC Partners, Malchow continued to work with the Analyst Institute and The Voter Participation Center.

Despite New Mexico permitting assisted suicide, the state requires that it be for terminally ill patients with a prognosis of only a few months.

Malchow argued that, in an era where the vast majority of voters are split between two parties, targeting ticket-splitters and independents no longer made sense.