...strategy after giving the boot to a polarizing top aide because of his work on behalf of a trade agreement Clinton opposes. Mark Penn, a lightning rod for controversy throughout Clinton's presidential campaign, left the campaign Sunday after it was disclosed...
...citing as an example "Mark Penn's raising the cocaine issue on with you yesterday."Matthews asserted, "Let's take a look at Mark Penn last night on Hardball, the way he brought up the issue of cocaine."Matthews said, "Well, that was Joe Trippi brilliantly...
...written by Michelle Cottle .By the end, it was hard to count all the reasons the members of Team Hillary wanted to see Mark Penn laid low. The rumpled, portly pollster's apparently unpardonable sin was his March 31 meeting with the Colombian ambassador to...
...would probably have more of an impact if he was actually gone from the campaign: Demoted Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn may no longer have the coveted title of chief strategist, but he remains a key member of the campaign's senior staff. Mr. Penn took...
...American politics. It played instead to niche markets. There really is no centre or even something we could call America in Mark Penn's mind. There are only soccer moms or office park dads or wired workers or impressionable elites. The category of citizen...
...a terse statement, Maggie Williams, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager, said, “After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton campaign.” His polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, will...
...charge of communications," Penn said conspiratorially, "the same way we made Mandy think she's in charge of ads." In March, Mark Penn suggested that the campaign target Obama's "lack of American roots," and drape Hillary in the flag as much as possible. The...
...they symbolize two dramatically different directions for the future of American politics. We first need to understand who Mark Penn is and where he came from. As a strategist, he has been as pivotal to Hillary as Karl Rove was to George W. Bush. Penn became...
...own wisdom and the strategy he derived from it, Morris did produce a decisive victory in the 1996 campaign re-enforced by Mark Penn's compliant and predictable numbers. Since 1996, Penn has acquired many new clients as well as ascending to the majestic heights...
...to play a big role. In a statement, campaign manager Maggie Williams said that "after the events of the last few days, Mark Penn asked to give up his role as chief strategist." Clinton campaign advisers made clear that he was all but forced out for what Mr....