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Edwards Cost Clinton Dearly: Penn

Ex-senator's fall from grace touches off second-guessing

May 1, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn is kicking himself in the wake of reports that Elizabeth Edwards thinks her husband shouldn't have run for president, ABC News reports. If news of John Edwards' infidelity had forced him to drop out of the race, Penn said, “No question in my mind,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Clinton 2008 • Mark Penn • political strategists • Iowa caucuses • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

Bush Flak Lands PR Gig With Clinton Insider

Dana Perino will be 'chief issues counselor' at Mark Penn's firm

Apr 14, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dana Perino, President Bush’s last press secretary, is joining the public-relations juggernaut run by former Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn, the Wall Street Journal reports. As “chief issues counselor,” Perino, 36, will focus on strategy for coming fights on health care and energy. “She’s been... More »

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public relations • Dana Perino • Mark Penn • George W. Bush • Burson-Marsteller

OPINION

 While We're At It, 
 Give Marriage a Bailout 

Recession, laws making it more expensive, so make nuptials easier

Feb 3, 09 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Between the recession and various legal knots, it’s no wonder so many Americans are eschewing marriage, Mark Penn writes in the Wall Street Journal. Either go with the bailout flow and revamp tax codes and the like to make marriage easier and less financially constrictive, or use similar tactics... More »

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marriage • America • tax relief • Mark Penn • cohabitation • domestic partnership • trend • financial crisis

Former Clinton Pollster Quits
as Lobbyist for Pakistani Party

Campaign still owes Mark Penn $5 million

Dec 29, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - It could get awkward for the secretary of state to be deeply in debt to a flack for the political party running one of the most incendiary countries in the world. That could be why pollster Mark Penn has ended his company's relationship with Pakistan’s ruling People’s Party,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Pakistan • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Mark Penn • Burson-Marsteller

GLOSSIES

 2008 Hall of Infamy
Inductees 

A month-by-month gallery of the year's most ignominious figures

Dec 25, 08 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - As we look back at the great people who made their mark this year, let us not forget to document the schlubby, the sneaky, and the just plain criminal. Vanity Fair has done the legwork, rounding up a month-by-month rogue's gallery. Some highlights:
  • January: Rudy Giuliani's Florida
... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Robert Mugabe • politics • Eliot Spitzer • Carly Fiorina • Lipitor • Radovan Karadzic • Rod Blagojevich • Mark Penn • scandal • Robert Jarvik • He Kexin • Richard Fuld • Joe the Plumber • Best of 2008

OPINION

 Debate Winner? 
 He Who Beats Expectations 

McCain faces uphill battle; Obama needs to boost foreign-policy cred

Sep 24, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - To win the presidential debates, Barack Obama and John McCain need to beat expectations, political strategist Mark Penn writes on Politico. Penn, who most recently was Hillary Clinton’s top strategist, argues that reinforcing one’s strengths does nothing: Voters know Obama, for example, is a skilled speaker, so he... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • debate • Election 2008 • Mark Penn

Analysis

 How Infighting Doomed Clinton 

Long awaited post-mortem details stunningly disfunctional campaign

Aug 12, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid failed for many reasons, the most prominent her campaign team's stunning dysfunction, writes Joshua Green in a much-anticipated Atlantic Monthly feature. Green uncovered a trove of memos, finding a team overwhelmed by “anger and toxic obsessions.” Clinton acted nothing like a chief... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Hillaryland • campaign staff • Mark Penn

Hillary Camp Memo: 'Paint Obama as Un-American'

Strategist argued Obama's links to 'basic American culture' are 'limited'

Aug 11, 08 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s top campaign strategist urged her to paint Barack Obama as un-American, reports the Atlantic in an upcoming article obtained by Politico. Clinton should empahsize that Obama's ties “to basic American values and culture” were "limited," according to a campaign memo. “Does anyone... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Mark Penn • American

Penn, Hughes Form Crisis-Management Team

Penn, Hughes push damage control for corporations, image control for themselves

Jul 9, 08 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Clinton strategist Mark Penn and former Bush adviser Karen Hughes are joining forces to create a corporate consulting organization at Penn’s current firm, the Wall Street Journal reports. The unlikely pair’s bipartisan endeavor will advise troubled corporations in areas of communications and public affairs—while serving to... More »

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Karen Hughes • consulting • bipartisanship • Mark Penn • Burson-Marsteller • crisis management

GLOSSIES

 Inside Clinton's
 Dysfunctional
 War Machine 

How the primary effort failed

Jul 1, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are many reasons for Hillary Clinton’s primary defeat, and most of them can be found within the political warrior and the creaking war machine she built, Gail Sheehy writes in Vanity Fair. Invoking the Lincoln administration, Clinton called her bickering advisers a “team of rivals.” Craving... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Hillaryland • Mark Penn

ANALYSIS

 How She Came Undone 

Clinton's campaign undermined by internal rancor, pushy spouse

Jun 8, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton’s interfering tenacity and squabbling aides killed Hillary Clinton’s chances to win the White House, the New York Times eulogizes in an obituary of the campaign that once seemed indestructible. “Hers was the campaign of destiny, a back-to-the-future effort to restore the Democratic dynasty of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Democratic presidential primaries • Mark Penn

OPINION

 Team Hillary's
 5 Big
 Mistakes 

How mood, rules, caucuses, money, and pacing laid her campaign low

May 8, 08 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the Clinton campaign in death throes, Karen Tumulty runs down its five crucial  mistakes in Time:
  • Mood. In a season when Democrats were desperate for change, Hillary “completely misread the mood” and went with incumbency.
  • Rules. Clinton's inner circle wasn't up on them. Mark Penn thought
... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Internet • campaign fundraising • Democratic nomination • California primary • Mark Penn • caucuses

OPINION

Penn's Still a Player in Clinton Endgame

Will he 'fly a kamikaze mission' to defeat Obama at all costs?

Apr 14, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite Hillary Clinton’s replacement of contentious Mark Penn with the more “ethical” Geoff Garin as chief strategist, the ousted adviser is still very much involved with the campaign, Robert Novak writes in the Chicago Sun-Times—or so he tells his friends. Those who interpreted the switch as a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • negative campaigning • Mark Penn • Geoff Garin

Analysis

$14M Penn Tab Underscores Consultants' Fleecing Spree

Ex-strategist made up 9% of Clinton spending

Apr 8, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Penn leaves Hillary Clinton’s campaign with a hefty $14 million lining his own pockets, a new high in the skyrocketing world of campaign consultancy, and some 9% of all money Clinton has laid out to date. But ordinary Americans are newly in the position of having their donations... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John Kerry • campaign fundraising • Mark Penn • political strategists • Bob Shrum

ANALYSIS

Clinton Staff Glad to See Penn's Exit

Morale might improve, but shift in strategy unlikely at this late hour

Apr 7, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Penn might have shaped the Clinton campaign, but he wasn’t well liked within it, Ben Smith writes in Politico. Some blamed him for the campaign's strategic blunders, while others were irked by his huge salary—he’s billed Clinton $13 million—and private-sector distractions. “It was very... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Mark Penn • political strategists

 Penn Quits
 as Clinton
 Strategist 

Top adviser out
after Colombia
trade meeting flap

Apr 6, 08 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's top strategist stepped down today after drawing fire for his trade meeting with a Colombian envoy last week, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton advisers said Mark Penn was all but pushed out, a move many in the camp had sought after Clinton lost key primary races. But... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Mark Penn • Washington lobbyists • political strategists

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Colombia Fires Clinton Aide Over Remark

Says apology for
trade meeting showed 'lack of respect'

Apr 5, 08 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colombia fired a Washington lobbying firm today after its CEO, a top Hillary Clinton strategist, apologized for meeting with the country's US envoy, Politico reports. Mark Penn called the trade meeting an “error in judgment” that “will not be repeated,” but the remark ruffled feathers in Colombia.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Colombia • labor unions • free trade • ambassador • Mark Penn • Change to Win

Clinton Aide Met With Colombians on Trade Deal

Penn, in job as lobbyist, hired to promote accord candidate opposes

Apr 4, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist met with Colombia’s ambassador to the US this week on a trade deal the Democratic candidate opposes—in his capacity as a lobbying executive, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mark Penn's firm, Burson-Marsteller, was paid $300,000 to fight for the bilateral accord, which... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Colombia • lobbyists • bilateral trade • Mark Penn • Burson-Marsteller

Clinton Aide: Obama Is Like Ken Starr

And as they plot next move, Hillary's staffers fight each other

Mar 6, 08 3:06 PM CST
(Newser) - The Democratic campaign took a turn for the nasty today, with a top adviser to Hillary Clinton alleging Barack Obama is “imitating Ken Starr”—an apparent reference to Obama’s recent Whitewater-tinted shots at his rival. Exclaims Greg Sargent at Talking Points, “Talk about throwing down the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Kenneth Starr • Whitewater • negative campaigning • Mark Penn • Howard Wolfson

Looking to Knock Out Clinton, Obama Spends Big

Both Dems pumping ad bucks into Texas, Ohio

Mar 2, 08 6:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is lavishing his considerable campaign wealth on advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts in Texas and Ohio, hoping to deal a death blow this week to Hillary Clinton's faltering campaign. The Obama cash blitz is most apparent on television, where he is outspending Clinton nearly 2-to-1 in both states, the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Texas • Ohio • campaign advertising • Mark Penn

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