Monday, January 22, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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12:51 PM
Are we to take Mark Penn, a strategist for Hillary Clinton, at all seriously? Penn is quoted in a New York Newsday article this morning saying the Obama and Edwards campsare "stalled or falling."
What is Penn smoking?
Oh... so he points to the new WaPo poll that shows Hillary is ahead by 20 points nationally. But you and I both know that the national polls right now count for bupkis.
Obama is ahead in the latest New Hampshire poll, and beating Hillary in the latest Iowa poll. I haven't seen Nevada numbers but two out of the first three primary contests - Obama is spanking Clinton.
What Penn does not admit in his rose-colored projections is that NO national poll matters until AFTER the primaries are completed. Until then it is a state by state, organizational get out the vote effort in 50 different contests.
Hillary knows, that she's not as well liked, as her husband. She knows that she has lost the solid African-American vote for the duration of the primary, even among women Obama is starting to eek up in the numbers.
Hillary is in a heap of trouble, she knows it, her campaign is demonstrating its desperation... and they are doing so in truly a amateurish manner.
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