Andrew Golis

The always bafoonish Mark Penn:

Wouldn’t you know it, but former Hillary chief strategist Mark Penn now thinks Barack Obama has a good shot at winning the general election — after spending months bad-mouthing his chances.

Penn arrived at this conclusion in a fairly novel way, however: He says that the key to the election will be a group of people he describes as “active grannies.”

“In the coming months, the big viewers of cable television, the conventions and the debates will be the active grannies,” Penn writes in a new column for the Politico, “and they will be torn between wanting to vote for the kind of change they voted for in 1992 and wondering whether Obama has cleared the experience hurdle they are concerned about.”

Whenever I’m annoyed at Obama, I remind myself that I can now happily read this and laugh without simultaneously crying.

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