Hillary Clinton's New Ad Blitz: Some Good, Some Bad

—By Jonathan Stein

| Tue Apr. 8, 2008 9:50 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton is up with five new ads in Pennsylvania. One of them seems to be a product of Mark Penn's departure: her former chief strategist was reportedly opposed to "humanizing" Clinton, and thus would have probably blocked this very good ad:

But the ad's aren't flawless. Look at the text on the screen at the 0:20 second mark in this ad.

Easy joke: maybe Mark Penn was in charge of spell-checking.

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