What I didn't understand was the group product manager on this project really needed to get this thing through politics, am I right?

我不明白的是，这个项目的集团产品经理真的需要通过政治来解决这个问题，对吗？

Here's one idea: you could group the five products into, first, products whose sales fell over the period (ice cream and frozen burgers) .

你可以将五个产品分组，首先是在这段时间内销量下降的产品（冰淇淋和冷冻汉堡）。