Sunday, June 08, 2008

Mark Penn on 08

New York Times: Her Top Aide writes his side of the argument as to why Hillary Clinton lost. Have read it twice and her Top Aide does not get it, it was a bad Campaign, let hit the top areas of problems, Iowa she came third, she was the front runner, Reagan also lost but it was close to Bush 41. In New Hampshire Clinton did win but only by few points, Reagan had a massive win and he had the nomination. The role of Bill Clinton was a disaster, the first " Black " President played the race card to help his wife and tried to make Obama look like any other black candidate. The Campaign did not seem to understand that the election process also included the caucuses, the Clinton machine thought it could win early and finish the race, it did not happen. Obama as Reagan did bought in new voters, in 1976 the Ford Campaign was surprised that voters that had not voted before turned out for Reagan, the Clinton Camp also missed this development for Obama. In 1976 President Ford had the White House and Air Force One to get in those days what we would call Super Delegates. Also it is has to be asked if the Clintons knew about Pastor Wright why they didn't use this information, in the Liberal Democratic Party it might not have worked, but when the information came out it hurt Obama in the later states. ONE SIMPLE LESSON, THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WAS FIGHTING 1992 AGAIN WHEN IT WAS 2008.

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