Mark Penn’s latest memo:
Change Begins March 4th. Hillary leads in the three largest, delegate rich states remaining: Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These three states have 492 delegates — 64 percent of the remaining delegates Hillary Clinton needs to win the nomination.
Chris Orr notes that this only works “If Clinton wins all three states by margins of 100–0.” Penn doesn’t seem to really understand spin. The point of spin is to make the person on whose behalf the spinning is happening look better, not worse. There’s no point in just saying any old thing. What’s more, it’s not really surprising that he’s bad at spin — he’s a pollster. Spinning is a distinct skill-set. But for some reason he seems to be doing an awful lot of it, and not very well.