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- Wisconsin and Hawaii vote today, but since Obama is expected to win they don't count unless he doesn't win. It's fun being the frontrunner!
- Meanwhile, it turns out that the Clinton campaign failed to submit a full slate of delegates for the Pennsylvania primary. Not a big deal for a variety of reasons, but indicative of a failure to appreciate how complex the primary would be. As Matt says, if I figured this out in January, shouldn't a campaign full of seasoned professionals have also?
- In another example of incompetent campaigning, a top Clinton strategist tells a reporter that the campaign will try to persuade pledged delegates to switch sides (yet another possible delegate quirk you read here first). The campaign has since issued a denial, but whoever said it deserves to be fired for not being able to keep his or her mouth shut. I mean, how in the world is that a useful thing to discuss publicly even if it is being considered by the campaign?
- In a third piece of news about the Clinton campaign's seeming inability to deal with a delegate-centric race, Jake Tapper highlights a rather jaw-dropping quote in which Clinton says the Texas primary process is so complex, "grown men are crying ... I had no idea it was so bizarre." Of course, she would have had an idea if she'd been reading the Lightning Round. I linked to the first of many explainers of the process in Texas on February 6. Yet another explainer of the process is available here, this time from former Rep. Martin Frost.
- Finally, the Clinton campaign also seems to boast some musically incompetent supporters.
--Sam Boyd
