Hillary Clinton began the race with all sorts of advantages, but she and her advisers never grasped how much had changed
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obsidianwings.blogs.comFound 3 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes, and 25 seconds agoby hilzoy This really is astonishing: "Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. ...
What a Pennhead
feeds.feedburner.comFound 3 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes, and 10 seconds agoTime recounts the top 5 mistakes made by Hillary's campaign. This one jumps out: Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. ...
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
news.yahoo.comFound 3 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes, and 28 seconds agoHillary Clinton began the race with all sorts of advantages, but she and her advisers never grasped how much had changed
Mark Penn, Super Genius
corner.nationalreview.comFound 3 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes, and 15 seconds agoThere's been a lot of talk about how Hillary Clinton is irreversibly down in the delegate count because she did a terrible job of organizing in caucus states and otherwise having a coherent delegate strategy. Well, this article in Time goes a long way toward explaining why her campaign couldn't get its act together. As it turns out, Mark Penn - her chief campaign strategist - is an ignoramus: Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game.
dailykos.com
Time has come up with a list of the top five strategic mistakes Hillary Clinton made during her unsuccessful bid for the White House, and while in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter why she went from inevitable to also-ran, there is one point in the article that deserves some attention:
As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
Found 3 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
08 May 2008 05:00 pm
A snippet from Karen Tumulty's article : As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all.
Found 3 days, 5 hours, 47 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
talkleft.com
This bad :
[I]in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there[,] [a]s aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. . . . Sitting nearby, veteran Democratic insider Harold M. Ickes, who had helped write those rules, was horrified - and let Penn know it. "How can it possibly be," Ickes asked, "that the much vaunted chief strategist doesn't understand proportional allocation?
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
cynical-c.com
From Time.com including this jaw dropping tidbit:
Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong:
Found 3 days, 18 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
edcone.typepad.com
Mistakes of the Clinton campaign . This stuff is always clear in hindsight, but some of it should have been pretty obvious ahead of time, too.
I think this mindset was part of the problem. Hillary is a strong candidate (although I don't like the idea of Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton succession) but I never felt like she was really asking for my vote until she got to New Hampshire, at which point the flawed strategery made it hard to come back.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
althouse.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Penn denies that he lacked understanding of the proportional approach to delegates.
Found 3 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
salon.com
Did John Edwards admit that he voted for Barack Obama in the North Carolina primary? That's the question that has had political blogs all aflutter since Edwards' appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday morning. Asked about his vote, Edwards said something that sounded like "I just voted for him on Tuesday," but could have also been "voted for them." (You can watch the full video below.)
Edwards, who has yet to officially endorse either Hillary Clinton or Obama, almost immediately told USA Today's Susan Page that he had not said "him.
Found 374 days, 4 hours, 20 minutes ago
reachm.com
Karen Tumulty at TIME documents five mistakes Clinton made, and the blogs are abuzz with the incomprehensible lack of a basic understanding of the system by the campaign's favorite scape-goat, Mark Penn.
Naturally, anyone who is paid millions of dollars as a chief campaign adviser should know a thing or two about how this whole nomination thingy works. For instance, you'd think it would just be expected Mark Penn knew about proportional delegate allocation and that unlike the Republicans, Democrats don't have winner-take-all contests.
Found 3 days, 9 hours, 30 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
freerepublic.com
Time.com ^ | May 8th, 2008 | KAREN TUMULTY
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gaypatriot.net
As Hillary's quest for the Democratic nomination which once seemed inevitable now seems impossible, a number of people are speculating why she lost.
I have long believed her personality would make it difficult for Mrs. Clinton to win. In this campaign, as Karl Rove put it she " came across as calculating, contrived, stiff and self-concerned. " Contrast that with Obama's charismatic presence, making it even more difficult for her to convince people of her ability to lead and unie the nation.
To be sure, in the debates (and some of her TV interviews-a format she had shunned in the early days of the campaign), she impressed many (including yours truly) with her intelligence and command of the issues.
Found 2 days, 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
We've heard this before -- Feb. 5 will end the race. Ohio. Texas. Pennsylvania. Right.
But this time, May 20 actually could be a game-changing date, when Kentucky and Oregon come into play.
The candidates will be traveling to Oregon, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave no hint last night at a fundraiser in Washington that she would drop out before then.
âIâve been counted out more than once. But thanks to all of you Iâve come back,â Mrs. Clinton told about 1,500 supporters at an event aimed at women donors.
Found 3 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com
Karen Tumulty has a much cited Time piece looking at the mistakes in the Clinton campaign, inevitability, underrating delegates and caucuses, a big donor fundraising model, and the assumption of early victory, but I'd like to throw in one of my own.
Found 3 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
donklephant.com
Mark Penn denies the allegations…
Found 3 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
firstread.msnbc.msn.com
Time's Tumulty has the first big post-mortem. She lists five major mistakes made by the Clinton campaign, "each of which compounded the others":
Found 3 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
polysigh.blogspot.com
Mark Penn has gotten lots of heat for his mistakes in this campaign, but this has to be the worst :
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rjwaldmann.blogspot.com
Karen Tumulty via David Kurtz
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sporkinthedrawer.typepad.com
Unbelievable:
As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all. Sitting nearby, veteran Democratic insider Harold M.
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
worshiptheglitch.com
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
misterfurious.blogspot.com
From TIME's "The Five Mistakes Clinton Made" :
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
rightwingnation.com
but you'd think after God knows how many primaries that a professional journalist would at least have paid attention :
Both Bill and Hillary have noted plaintively that if Democrats had the same winner-take-all rules as Republicans, she'd be the nominee.
We don't have winner-take-all rules. State parties decide how to allot delegates. Some states are winner-take-all; others are not. The issue is that the Democrats -- the national party, mind -- again showed their utter disregard for the principles of Federalism upon which this nation was based by telling states that they could not have winner-take-all primaries (or caucuses).
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robertbrigham.blogspot.com
OMG this is funny :
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
bornlivelovedie.com
Tom Edsall seems to think that the Obama campaign should pay Hillary's debt and repay her loan to her campaign as a way of easing her out of the race. The bill would be north of $25 million.
Really?
Josh is already on the case:
Helping to retire an opponent's campaign is not unprecedented and can sometimes be justified in the interests of party unity. (Remember, this isn't just money in the abstract. A lot of it is payment to people who provided services or goods of various sorts to the campaign and need to be paid or paid back.
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 7 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
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deadissue.com
After reading this it is hard to blame Obama for the demise of Hillary Clinton, one way or another Hillary and her band of merry pranksters were going to blow the election, better she did it in the primaries and not the general.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 12:25 PM MDT
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displib.blogspot.com
"Astonishing," Obsidian Wings
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democracyforutah.com
Good analysis from Karen Tumulty in TIME :
2. She didn't master the rules
Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates .
Found 3 days, 9 hours, 21 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
utahfordean.com
Good analysis from Karen Tumulty in TIME :
2. She didn't master the rules
Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates .
Found 3 days, 9 hours, 21 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
furiousnads.com
"Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game," reports Time. Her much-vaunted chief strategist, for example, mistakenly believed that the Democrats awarded their delegates winner-take-all rather than proportionally -- and then stuck with the strategy based upon that incorrect belief anyway.
Now, imagine Hillary governing the same way, by picking people based upon loyalty rather than knowledge and ability. Isn't that what the GOPresidency has been doing for the past seven years?
Found 3 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
expatteacher.blogspot.com
I'm very intersted in all articles related to the failure of the Clinton campaign to win the nomination . I found my first one today , but please e-mail or write on the margins any articles you see about it.
Found 3 days, 6 hours, 58 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
bestoftheblogs.com
Hillary ran a terrific campaign. Not! Time Magazine has a concise and telling recap of Hilla's campaign mistakes. Here's the top line:
She misjudged the mood (of the country)
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hillaryneedsavacation.blogspot.com
"The Five Mistakes Clinton Made"
Found 3 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
democraticcentral.com
's plan carried all the way out.
See the whole article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2...
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electric-escape.net
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
Found 3 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
caveatbettor.blogspot.com
The top 5 of them, anyhow (via John Rove ).
Found 3 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
vkpedia.com
Time.com has an article titled The Five Mistakes Clinton Made , that analyzes why the self-obsessed candidate who presumed that she was just waiting for George W. Bush to leave so that she could move in has seen her campaign derail.
The article says:
Found 3 days, 4 hours, 26 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
metropolitician.blogs.com
The "five mistakes" are kind of telling, in that these are not the kind of mistakes that I would have wanted a potential president to make. And when I say "deserve," I mean it -- look at the frickin' delegate count lead Obama has, which has remained constant for far longer than Hillary should have been in the race. Time Magazine's list :
1. She misjudged the mood.
Found 3 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
reappropriate.com
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me.
Found 3 days, 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
rustyidols.blogspot.com
and sent a mind numbingly self serving and deceptive open letter to Senator
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wethefree.blogspot.com
clipped from corner.nationalreview.com
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chessboardblog.com
A really fascinating article by Time today listing Hillary Clinton's 5 biggest strategic mistakes during the primary season. I had planned on writing something along those lines after she actually conceded, but apparently why wait for the candidate to drop out before doing a postmortem? Don't get me wrong, there's no denying that the odds against her are so high as to indicate that it's time to start talking about the Clinton campaign in the past tense. Just saying is all.
Anyway, once she actually does concede, or perhaps before, I will discuss my own list of 5 big mistakes she made that aren't in Time's list, though I agree with Karen Tumulty in her assessment.
Found 2 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
holycoast.blogspot.com
Time Magazine tells us that Penn wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier : Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
Found 2 days, 19 hours, 19 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
betsyspage.blogspot.com
Time Magazine looks at the five biggest mistakes that Hillary Clinton made. Two mistakes really stand out: her team didn't understand the importance of the proportional rules for allocating delegates to the Democratic convention plus they never really organized in the caucus states. Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
Found 2 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
lzydata.blogspot.com
this. What Is the What If? by John Heilemann in New York magazine is good too: he lists ten mistakes Hillary made. While it's hard to lay the blame for some of these on Hillary, like misjudging the electorate's mood on change versus experience, it's clear enough in retrospect that the crucial decision to devote more resources to the early and bigger states, perhaps a result of a misguided understanding of the process, did hamper her chances during Super Tuesday and in the February contests.
Found 2 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
dowdellresearch.blogspot.com
Broader could have meant the female base , but the article states, "white Americans". Which Hillary suggested in Indianapolis, that she could win if Americans would start being Americans . defining her base. But after her razor thin win in Indiana she had to be a little more direct, in speaking to raced white unemployed males.
Found 2 days, 14 hours, 4 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
moderateleft.com
If there's one thing Clinton supporters and Obama supporters can agree on, it's that Mark Penn is a complete moron :
That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
Found 2 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
rsmccain.blogspot.com
The "winner-take-all" Republican primaries -- and Romney's early surrender -- were what allowed John McCain to cinch the GOP nomination in February. Meanwhile, Team Clinton made a series of strategic miscalculations, as Time 's Karen Tumulty has explained.
Found 2 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
tincorporated.com
Now, of course, the question seems not whether Clinton will exit the race but when." Sooner rather than later please. Visit site.
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blueollie.wordpress.com
someone suggests that he doesn't come across as being "Presidential" because his demeanor is simply too relaxed ; that is, in fact, part of his appeal to people like me!
The impetus for this piece actually came this morning, as I tried to keep my eyes open watching John McCain on TV. I do not recommend this as a morning regimen.
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d-day.blogspot.com
I can't do much better than what dnA did to this Hillary Clinton comment:
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
salon.com
Did John Edwards admit that he voted for Barack Obama in the North Carolina primary? That's the question that has had political blogs all aflutter since Edwards' appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday morning. Asked about his vote, Edwards said something that sounded like "I just voted for him on Tuesday," but could have also been "voted for them." (You can watch the full video below.)
Edwards, who has yet to officially endorse either Hillary Clinton or Obama, almost immediately told USA Today's Susan Page that he had not said "him.
Found 374 days, 4 hours, 52 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
vastleftwingconspiracy.net
Meanwhile, back in Canada, the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Canadian G.O.P. franchise prompted BigCityLib @ BigCityLib Strikes Back to make a list of scandals of Stephen Harper's "accountable" government. Boris @ The Galloping Beaver further expands on this . In between, Impolitic @ Impolitical explains how free speech on Parliament Hill is being stiffled by the Harper government.
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reddiggulo.us
Google TiSP Joke Becomes Reality
Found 374 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
liberalvaluesblog.com
It appears that everyone except for Hillary Clinton and her more fanatic supporters realize that for all practical purposes the nomination battle is over and Barack Obama has won. AP describes Clinton as a "dogged but deluded also-ran." She has yet one more ridiculous argument in considering West Virginia a test, thinking that a win in a state where she is expected to win will somehow make people forget that Obama has already won more delegates, states, and votes than she does.
Found 3 days, 2 hours, 55 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
feministblogs.org
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me.
Found 389 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
dailykos.com.
Time has come up with a list of the top five strategic mistakes Hillary Clinton made during her unsuccessful bid for the White House, and while in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter why she went from inevitable to also-ran, there is one point in the article that deserves some attention:
As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
Found 3 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com
Why do men die first? Mr. Free Market One reason many on the Left do not believe in Jihad Basic questions about farm subsidies The Maoist insurgency in India "Come over here and fertilize me." Flowers wave at passing bugs. Loving violent criminals The 5 mistakes Clinton made. Time. Related: The Clinton Divorce in the WSJ, which begins: No, we don't mean Bill and Hillary. We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of reconciliation, but after Tuesday a split looks inevitable.
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politicsplusstuff.blogspot.com
Krugman on the general election for President
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politics.boogietrain.nl
Let me repeat to emphasize: she lost when people contemplated her becoming president. Factors into my personality analysis. Charles Krauthammer echoed that point :
With no important policy differences separating them, the contest became one of character and personality. Matched against this elegant, intellectually nimble, hugely talented newcomer, she had no chance of winning that contest.
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
With the Clinton campaign widely viewed as being on its last legs, staffers are now more free than ever to dish out some dirt on the many strategic blunders of Mark Penn.
The latest: At a strategy session last year, Penn reportedly said that a Clinton win in California would effectively wrap up the nomination by awarding her all of the state's 370 delegates.
As we all know, Democrats don't do winner-take-all primaries, but instead use a form of proportional representation that has been in force for about 20 years -- a fact that didn't seem to sink in with the Clinton campaign and their big-state strategy.
Found 3 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
economist.com
EVEN Mark Penn cannot possibly be this stupid : Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong:
Found 3 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
uppitywis.org
Wow.
HRC's top strategist Mark Penn thought the democratic primary races were a winner-take-all affair. He didn't know that for the past twenty years, it's been proportional representation.
The republican primary race is structured as winner-take-all.
This critical misunderstanding makes sense if you consider Mark Penn is a republican and his PR firm is co-owned by McCain's chief strategist.
Time magazine details HRC's other mistakes.
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nothingknew.wordpress.com
It is nice to see the main stream media finally catching up to the bloggers.
What Clinton Did Wrong
Everything on this list was stated by bloggers (mostly at Daily Kos) weeks if not months ago. If I were a reporter I'd just read blogs in the morning and write my articles in the afternoon. Cite whatever sources you want since you can always name "anonymous sources".
Perhaps on-the-ground investigative reporting hasn't moved to the blogosphere yet but solid, well-researched analysis has been there for years.
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osi-speaks.blogspot.com
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
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dooeypig.tumblr.com
Talking Points Memo | What a Pennhead , quoting a Time article entitled "The Five Mistakes Clinton Made."
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news.aol.com
Here is the Time magazine article I referenced in the video above.
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news.aol.com
The Clinton braintrust has been making news the past few days, and not in a good way. First, there was the revelation that I was righter about Mark Penn than I knew. From Time Magazine : As aides looked over the campaign calendar (last year), chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all.
Found 2 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
regeneratormag.com
It's no longer a question of if the Clinton machine will be dismantled, but when. A "senior campaign official" told The Huffington Post's Lawrence O'Donnell it will be no later than June 15 .
The Washington Blade, a gay-oriented newspaper that previously endorsed her royal highness, urged her to drop out in an editorial that ran yesterday. TIME Magazine is writing about the campaign in past tense . Stalwart Paul Krugman admits the gas tax gamble was a mistake . Indeed, the mainstream media narrative is set .
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roadkillrefugee.wordpress.com
Hillary Plays Race Card. Hillary makes explicit racial argument for her candidacy. She says "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." Did she really just make an explicit connection between "hard working" and "white" or is my eyesight failing? But since she brought up the topic, how exactly does she plan to succeed without winning a material percentage of the most loyal segment of Democratic Party, African American voters?
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bhfrick.dailykos.com
Time has come up with a list of the top five strategic mistakes Hillary Clinton made during her unsuccessful bid for the White House, and while in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter why she went from inevitable to also-ran, there is one point in the article that deserves some attention:
As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.
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naysue.wordpress.com
( Read the full article . . .)
Happy reading, yall.
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realclearpolitics.com?feed=hmSRr3W97c8
Ten 'What Ifs' About Clinton's Campaign - John Heilemann, NY Magazine
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politicalrealm.blogspot.com
NC Dem Brad Miller , WA Dem Rick Larsen , a CA super , a VA super (switching from Clinton), and two NC supers also back Obama.
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talkingpointsmemo.com
TPM Election Central has posted the power point presentation distributed to House Democrats by the Clinton campaign making her case for why she is the better nominee to help Dems hold on to the toughest swing district seats in November. A second land swap deal takes a little more luster off the McCain ...
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