Clinton won't field full PA delegate slate

As Atrios suggests, how can Clinton be ready to "lead on day one", when she can't even take care of business during the primaries?

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

This despite the possibility the primary proves critical and despite Clinton owning the full-throated support of Gov. Rendell, state Democratic Party leadership, Mayor Nutter and, presumably, the organizational skill all that entails.

And despite a Rendell-ordered extension of the filing deadline that could be viewed as more than just coincidental.

What's this mean?

It appears Clinton came up 10 or 11 candidates short across a number of congressional districts, including two in Philadelphia.

That's close to 10 percent of the 103 delegates to be decided by voters.

It appears the shortage would've been double that if Rendell hadn't extended last week's candidate filing deadline by a day and a half, ostensibly due to bad weather.

This at a time when Clinton's campaign, like Barack Obama's - which did file a full slate in the state - hoards delegates like diamonds.

Pennsylvania voters will go to the polls to select delegates for the national convention. If there's no Clinton delegate on the slate, she won't get that delegate even if the vote would've given her one. You can't win what's not on the slate.

Rendell changed the rules mid-game to try and help out his candidate, and Clinton's campaign still couldn't pull of the simple task. Maybe she thought those districts didn't matter like 2/3rds of the rest of the country?

Obama's "inexperienced" campaign, however, what with their pretty plagiarized words, didn't seem to have a problem.

Update: PA Dems' delegate selection plan (PDF) states that Hillary would get the delegates anyway, which puts this more in the "embarrassment" category than something that would materially impact her ability to win the state's delegates.