Shorter Shorter Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM): "The states that vote for Obama are insignificant. In fact, the only states that count are our home state, California, Texas, and states that held straw polls we can retrospectively claim to be primaries, preferably with the candidate who would be soundly beating us if any of his victories counted excluded from the ballot." I can't say that the thought of having this strategic mastermind in charge of a general election campaign fills me with great hope. It also seems to me that it would have been better for Clinton to take some of the 5 million bucks she's paying to get advice from idiots and use that to actually advertise and/or organize in the "insignificant" states. --Scott Lemieux
