It seems that even in victory folks in the Clinton campaign are letting everyone know that Mark Penn sucks.
Obama camp denies that its holds a secret bloc of 50 superdelegates.
The GOP does financial oversight just about as well internally as it does for the federal government.
Chief Hillary flack Howard Wolfson says Obama is “imitating Ken Starr.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a conference call with bloggers today about the FISA bill and stressed that for her: “Exclusivity is the issue.”
Not immunity.
She says she’s “absolutely opposed” to immunity for telecoms, but that she “didn’t want the fight to be so focused there that we neglect exclusivity.” An exclusivity provision would make FISA the exclusive mechanism for conducting government surveillance.
Not clear whether Pelosi would be willing to throw immunity under the bus for exclusivity, but it has that smell about it.
In a MSNBC appearance today, Hillary supporter Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) revealed that he was pressing DNC chair Howard Dean for a re-vote in his state.
Late Update: TNR is citing an anonymous DNC Rules Committee member as saying that Michigan is likely to hold a caucus sometime before the Democratic Convention, to allocate the delegates that the DNC stripped when Michigan held its primary.
The political geek in me loves this kind of stuff.
SurveyUSA has just come out with its 50 state polls comparing the head-to-head match-ups between Hillary and McCain and Obama and McCain.
Hillary v. McCain:
Obama v. McCain:
As it stands now, either Dem wins against McCain. Keep in mind this is different than a single national opinion poll, some of which show McCain ahead. SurveyUSA‘s exercise here is to allocate electoral votes based on its state-by-state polls.
The interesting thing though is how close Obama and Hillary are to each other in electoral vote count. It’s only a 4 vote difference, even though Obama carries far more states. The key difference? She takes Pennsylvania and Florida.
Late Update: Before the arrival of emails from supporters of each candidate, let me acknowledge that there is limited utility in this sort of exercise. Some state polls, for example, are within the margin of error, etc. But this is catnip for junkies.
Later Update: We’ve got a discussion going on the maps at TPMCafe.
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