Mark Penn, Droppin' Some Knowledge And TELLING THE TRUTH!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

To: Interested Parties
From: Mark Penn
Re: Obama's 75% Ceiling

While we heartily congratulate Senator Obama's campaign on their Wisconsin victory, the final results must be less than heartening to the Obama campaign.

1) Obama has a ceiling of 75% of Democratic primary support. Barack Obama has consistently won primaries and caucuses with only 75% or less of the vote. In addition to effectively disenfranchising the at least 25% of the Democratic electorate that is not voting for him, the Obama camp cannot be happy that their candidate hasn't reached 90% of the vote in any contest since the U.S. Virgin Islands on February 9.

2) Obama fails to win key demographics. Once again, Obama has not broken into the key demographic of voters who have been on a casino junket in the last thirty days. He also failed to win voters who had never heard of him, Wiccans, members of more than one bowling league, mourning dove hunters, white voters with "strongly negative" views of African Americans, and Vatican II-rejecting Catholics. These groups will only become more significant as the primary campaign shifts to Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

http://tpi.blogspot.com/2008/02/tomorrows-mark-penn-memo-tonight-ive.html

[Thrill]

1. hahahahah

[islandmkl]

2. on the other hand...he has been kicking the shit out of my candidate

[Debi]

8. But that doesn't matter because I billed her another cool million

for writing this memo. :7

[GarbagemanLB]

3. Goodbye Hillary, that Ann Coulter endorsement sure helped you out!

[CTD]

4. Although I'm pretty sure Obama owns the Wicca vote.

Nice piece. Waiting to hear the actual spin.

[dchill]

5. OK, so I'm like, hey Mr. Penn...

What's YOUR candidate's ceiling? Hmmm? 51%? 52?

ON EDIT: This is NOT by Penn - it's a snarky blog satire.

[Eurobabe]

6. bwahahahah!! someone ha s devious sense of humor n/t

[blogslut]

7. heehee

:rofl:

[UALRBSofL]

15. I hope people are intelligent enough not to believe this article or the OP

Tomorrow's Mark Penn Memo Tonight

I've obtained through dark and nefarious means an advance copy of the forthcoming Mark Penn memo on Clinton's crushing defeat in Wisconsin.

To: Interested Parties
From: Mark Penn
Re: Obama's 75% Ceiling

While we heartily congratulate Senator Obama's campaign on their Wisconsin victory, the final results must be less than heartening to the Obama campaign.

1) Obama has a ceiling of 75% of Democratic primary support. Barack Obama has consistently won primaries and caucuses with only 75% or less of the vote. In addition to effectively disenfranchising the at least 25% of the Democratic electorate that is not voting for him, the Obama camp cannot be happy that their candidate hasn't reached 90% of the vote in any contest since the U.S. Virgin Islands on February 9.

2) Obama fails to win key demographics. Once again, Obama has not broken into the key demographic of voters who have been on a casino junket in the last thirty days. He also failed to win voters who had never heard of him, Wiccans, members of more than one bowling league, mourning dove hunters, white voters with "strongly negative" views of African Americans, and Vatican II-rejecting Catholics. These groups will only become more significant as the primary campaign shifts to Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

3) Who cares about Wisconsin anyway? Seriously, has any of you been to Wisconsin until now? I haven't even been in an airport there. You probably can't even name the capital. It's a state comprised of rubes and impressionable elites. We never really expected to win there, and indeed only heard of the state after February 5th. Prior to that we assumed it was part of Canada, or failing that it was an invention of the beer marketing industry. The mistake is obviously ours, but the underlying point--who gives a s---?--still, we think, stands.

Given all of these facts, we are quite happy with our performance in Wisconsin and look forward to whatever states are next.
Labels: 2008 election, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Wisconsin


posted by Benjamin Dueholm | 12:16 AM
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Comments:
See now this is an awesome post, and what's sad is that until point #2, you almost had me.

# posted by Syjefroi : 3:04 PM SEEMS TO ME OBAMA PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS AGAIN

[melody]

24. It's hilarious -- whomever the writer is should apply to the Onion

They badly need him/her these days.

[Botany]

9. Mark Penn?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

"The more Obama wins the better for Hillary" .... The wisdom of Penn.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[johnnydrama]

28. haha

"We'll finally have Obama right where we want him right around his 2nd inagural!"

-Mark Penn.

[VolcanoJen]

10. How much is she paying this asshat, anyhow?

I mean, he's got to be kidding me, here.

[Botany]

13. $4.3 million

Mark Penn ..... skip the caucuses

[VolcanoJen]

20. $4.3 million to work up until February 5th?

I'm assuming he stopped charging her his fee on February 6th, seeing as how he had no post-Super Tuesday strategy to speak of?

[Major Hogwash]

26. The rest is commission. 10% of the 25% of the 40% who are still sending her money.

Hope he saves it for a rainy day.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Spin, Mark, Spin

In the end, you'll just get dizzy and fall down hard.

[Arugula Latte]

27. Okay ... I see it was satire.

They got me. :rofl:

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Well Done - You Had Me For A Moment

The Clinton campaign is becoming so bizzare that it seems unreal at times.

[Medusa]

14. Brilliant.

Very funny read.

[TwilightGardener]

16. It's just a flesh wound.

[Straight Shooter]

17. "While we heartily congratulate ..." See? She has a heart!

:P

[robertpaulsen]

You had me at casino junket.

:rofl:

[SKKY]

18. He also hasn't tapped, no pun intended, the sex offender demographic...

...and I think that will play huge moving forward.

[caligirl]

21. But I thought if you were a repug your likely a sex offender. Was I wrong?

http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals

[mzmolly]

19. So I guess Hillary's ceiling is 45%?

Just saw that this was satire.

Good one! ;)

[matcom]

22. If my nephew decides to run for 5th grade lunch monitor

remind me of this post so I don't hire Penn. Little Mitchel won't stand a chance

[melody]

23. This is hilarious, who really wrote this?

Best laugh I've had this week so far. Here's my favorite:

>Wiccans, members of more than one bowling league, mourning dove hunters

[Justitia]

25. How sad is it that I believed this until I got to the Wiccans? Mark Penn sucks that bad - LOL! -nt

[CorpGovActivist]

29. !

:spray: