Clinton urges Iowa voters to caucus on wrong day

[Windy]

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton may have shot herself in the foot trying to get Iowa voters to pledge support to her -- she is encouraging them to go caucus on January 14, 11 days too late.

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At a rally featuring her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Saturday, campaign workers asked supporters to sign and mail cards that said "Yes! I'm an Iowan for Hillary" with their contact information as well as other supportive friends.

One small problem. In the upper right-hand corner of the card, it says "I, _____, pledge to support Hillary Clinton at my precinct caucus on January 14, 2008."

Unfortunately, that's 11 days too late. The Iowa caucuses are January 3 and organization is key to getting voters to go to the events and support their preferred candidate.

The Politico.com, an Internet site that specializes in politics and first reported the mistake, said at Bill Clinton's second event on Saturday the cards had the wrong date crossed out and replaced with the correct date.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Todd Eastham)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071224/pl_nm/usa_politics_clinton_dc

[MonkeyFunk]

1. Yes

the 14th was the original date of the caucus - it got changed. So they re-used the cards, and hand-corrected the dates, as noted in the article.

[Windy]

5. Pretty amateurish....

and to think with the millions the clinton campaign has raised.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. or wisely frugal

it's a silly little handout at an event, and the error was corrected.

It's hard to call the Clinton campaign amateurish with any conviction.

[Windy]

7. Not at all given their behavior so far in the primary season. n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Politico.com Rocks!

Thanks for the laugh, too.

Must be those genius type organizational strategerists from Mark Penn's Burson-Marsteller operation.

- Dave

[LoveMyCali]

3. Speaking of the 14th

Isn't this about the 14th post on this subject?

The date was hand corrected on the cards, let it go.

[Lucinda]

4. :)

:thumbsup:

[dkf]

8. Some weren't corrected.

Now they will be.

[CorpGovActivist]

10. Those Might Be Worth Something Already...

... and certainly, someday, if the campaign's epitaph reads: "Mark Penn wasn't the brilliant tactician he was cracked up to be."

Political junkies will pay a lot for those; they're sort of like coin mis-strikes or stamp mis-prints.

- Dave

[College Liberal]

9. It was a simple mistake

Clinton is a rock-star, even stars fall sometimes....

[book_worm]

11. I'm not a Clinton Supporter but this is just a minor error that

really doesn't warrant a thread. Actually, I'm glad that they reused the brouchure and crossed out the now incorrect date--it saves paper.