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   <title>The Logical End of Mark Penn: Every State Is Insignificant</title>
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   <summary>Well, I suppose it had to come to this. We all knew, deep down, we all knew. According to TPM&apos;s front page, Mark Penn has said the following: Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Well, I suppose it had to come to this. We all knew, deep down, we all knew.</p>
<p>According to TPM's front page, Mark Penn has said the following:</p>
<blockquote>Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.</blockquote>
<p>That's right, every state that holds a Democratic primary is insignificant.<br /><br />You see, it doesn't matter who Democratic voters choose. Not in California, Illinois, New Mexico, Kansas, or Virginia. Because <strong>that process, the democratic one, isn't really well-suited to picking the best candidate</strong>; the candidate who'll win in November. And don't we want the best candidate? Of course we do! And so does Mark Penn.</p>
<p>Mark Penn sees, and this really is merely the logical endpoint of his recent comments, that <strong>elections are imperfect devices</strong>. They measure what people WANT more than what they need. What Mark Penn is damn <em>sure</em> they need. And what's that, what do we need in a candidate? Who can be sure? Who can know a mind as brilliant as Penn's? All we can say for certain is that what's best for America has a one hundred percent correlation with what's best for Mark Penn's wallet.</p>
<p>But don't let that distract you. The guru Penn has led us to where -- had we been clear-thinking as he -- we were always meant to go. The land where elections don't matter, where the voice of all states everywhere, Hillary supporting or Obama supporting, are irrelevant in the quest for a Democratic nominee. <strong>All that matters is electability, and primary voters can't be trusted.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, it is the logical endpoint of a masterful argument against democracy. We have finally reached it. It is finished.</p>
<p>Let's hope the Hillary 2008 campaign is the logical endpoint of Mark Penn's career as a Democratic strategist.</p>]]>
      
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