Josh Marshall - fresco di allori importanti - su Mark "microtrend" Penn, il guru di Hillary che ha come cliente italiano il Cav.:
As you know, I believe that it is an inexorable fact of the universe that Mark Penn is a vastly over-rated, fairly mendacious pollster whose refined tactic of saying incredible stupid things on behalf of his candidates seldom serves them well. I've done a little back research to flesh out my recollections. And as near as I can tell the guy hasn't won a contested Democratic primary either in a decade or maybe forever. He's the classic rooster whose one well-timed break he's interpreted as an ability to make the sun rise.
Il resto del post, che parla del fatto che la campagna di Hillary era semplicemente programmata per sbarazzarsi di Obama nel super tuesday e così non è successo, riporta anche un'intervista particolarmente critica al NYO di Leon Panetta.
”I never considered him someone who would run a national campaign for the presidency,” he said. He asserted that Mr. Penn “comes from an old school, like Karl Rove—it’s all about dividing people into smaller groups rather than taking the broader approach that was needed.”
Nee York Times, TPM, New York Observer
