Penn Was An Early Adopter Of The Florigan Strategy

Some of Josh's memo cache serve to reinforce impressions the political world already formed about the Clinton campaign, and others, like this one from March 5, 2008, shed new light on certain calls.

It has been reported and assumed that Mark Penn was one of the later adopters of the Florigan strategy -- that he resisted calls to advise Sen. Clinton call for a revote in Florida and Michigan until too late. Indeed, Green's reporting speaks to a certain paralysis of decision making, and it's not clear who stood in the way.

But it wasn't Penn.

"...The bottom line is the same -- with an aggressive strategy in the remaining states and revotes in Florida and Michigan, this thing could be easily won with a reasonable split in the superdelegates."

That's just ten days after the idea was first proposed by Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro  in an e-mail sent to Clinton herself.