Penn and stink

[JI7]

Following on from that last gem about Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's Svengali-cum-pollster, here's another amusing tale from an ABC reporter.

When the Des Moines Register last Iowa poll - showing Barack Obama in a strong lead - came out last week, Penn rubbished it, writing:

The Des Moines Register poll adopts an unprecedented new turnout model for the caucuses, and its new poll is out of sync with the other polling done in the race.

And in fact, the DMR poll turned out to be ... remarkably accurate, the most accurate poll of the entire campaign. So, Penn gets asked today about his hatchet-job, and ABC's head of polling recounts:

On the press plane flying from Iowa to New Hampshire, off-air reporter Eloise Harper reports, "Mark Penn admitted to knowing that the trend was shifting towards Obama this past week."


That means that at the very moment Penn was accusing the Des Moines Register of producing unreliable data, and saying it was Clinton who had the momentum, he knew otherwise.


http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2008/01/penn_and_stink.html

[Forkboy]

1. That's because he's a first rate shithead and scumbag.