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re-upped for Hillary's bid. Her 2006 Senate campaign had raised an astonishing $51.6 million against token opposition, in what everyone assumed was merely a dry run for a far bigger contest. But something had happened to fund-raising that Team Clinton didn't fully grasp: the Internet. Though Clinton's totals from working the shrimp-cocktail circuit remained impressive by
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As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all. Sitting nearby, veteran Democratic insider Harold M. Ickes, who had helped write those rules, was horrified — and let Penn know it. "How can it possibly be," Ickes asked, "that the much vaunted chief strategist doesn't understand proportional allocation?"
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azgaribdA very good analysis of the five principal mistakes Hillary Clinton made that seem to have cost her the nomination. We don't say it's all over yet, but these mistakes are quite obvious to a sharp outside observer. Nicely done.<br><br>
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Matthew GalganiA very good analysis of the five principal mistakes Hillary Clinton made that seem to have cost her the nomination. We don't say it's all over yet, but these mistakes are quite obvious to a sharp outside observer. Nicely done.<br><br>
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