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This is amazing:
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.What's even more amazing, of course, is that Clinton continued to believe that the strategic services of someone who failed to grasp basic elements of the nominating process were worth millions of dollars. It really does seem that the "arbitrarily selected big state" strategy wasn't just lame ex post facto spin, but represented what they actually believed. But given the way the system was structured, it couldn't actually work. --Scott Lemieux
