A killer quote from a post-caucus piece in the Washington Post today, which hints at what was going wrong inside the Clinton camp, and suggests her brain-trust wasn't so smart:
Last January, days before her campaign officially began, top strategist Mark Penn huddled with a veteran of the family's fundraising efforts for an hour-long PowerPoint pitch. The presentation emphasized Clinton's experience and the inevitability of her nomination, but the fundraiser told Penn that he was missing something: the desire among the public for a change in the political tone and discourse.
"That's what people say every election. It's not any more evident today than it is in other elections," countered Penn, a veteran Democratic pollster.
The fundraiser, who related the conversation on the condition of anonymity, signed up with Obama.
