Real change or pocket change? (This is not the dead horse you're looking for.)

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Friday April 11, 2008 · 3:05 PM PDT

2008/04/11 · 15:05

The Obama Campaign has made a habit of not distributing "street money" to ward leaders in previous elections, and they've said they don't plan to do so in Pennsylvania, either.

Yes, we all know that by now.

To some, it sounds like a moral victory simply on the grounds of not filtering hundreds of thousands of dollars contributed by individual donors down to GOTV workers who end up with only $10 or $20. To others, it sounds like callous disregard for how hard life is in Philadelphia's poor neighborhoods and how valuable the ward volunteers' work is.

You might be surprised, though, to know what the Obama campaign has done in Pennsylvania in the four weeks since the last primary. Join me below the fold to find out.

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Tuesday April 08, 2008 · 8:43 AM PDT

2008/04/08 · 08:43

By now, everyone knows the story of how Mark Penn, CEO of Burson-Marsteller and former Chief Strategist for Hillary Clinton's campaign, asked to be relieved of his Chief Strategist duties following his "judgment error" in meeting with a Colombian ambassador to help push the Colombian trade agreement through Congress.

But there is so much more to the story. Keep reading after the fold.

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 1:07 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 13:07

Hillary Clinton's most recent swipe at pledged delegates -- her appeal to North Dakota caucus delegates to switch sides and vote for her -- has raised my blood pressure more than a can of V8 could.

You see, I understand that pledged delegates are not, according to DNC rules, legally or procedurally bound to vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged. And I also understand that because of the way slates of delegates are filed, it's highly unlikely that pledged delegates from primary states are actually going to change their votes (unless, of course, they are pledged to a candidate who's dropped out of the race or suspended his campaign).

But what has me going is the way she's targeting caucus states. And that's because caucus states are different. I know. I live in one.

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