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Know the Rules

Sean at the must-read FiveThirtyEight.com offers a devastating analysis of internal Clinton campaign memos that show key advisors did not understand the basic rules of the Democratic Party's primary process.

This is malpractice. Clinton National Field Director Guy Cecil’s January 19 internal memo discussing February 5th’s congressional districts and the threshold numbers from gaining or defending the gain of an extra delegate is replete with error.

Set aside the malpractice of discontinuing polling in caucus states where the blind-flying Clinton campaign allowed Obama’s team to run up the score, this revelation shows that the Clinton’s HQ apparently did not have simple calculators.

Go read the details -- and let them be a lesson to future campaigns about the need to understand exactly how the process works.

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