In a profile
piece today in the WaPo, Hillary Clinton's key polling strategist claims the New York senator could win the 2008 presidential election by appealing to women, Latinos and low-income voters.
Mark J. Penn, Hillary's most trusted poll reader, has been hawking a presentation informally called the "Penn Power Point" to donors that he says demonstrates how Hillary will win the presidency.
"When you look at this thing nationally -- how is she going to win -- I think it's really important to look at what were the two groups that defected from the Democrats in 2004 to give it to Bush," Penn told the Post. "And those were women and Latino voters. And almost all the change in that election from 2000 was among those two groups, and those are her two strongest groups. And I think that's some of the reason you see her doing so well in places like Ohio and Florida -- because I think those are both states that she could take."
Penn also said that his data confirms that Hillary performs better than other Democrats among low-income voters, "especially members of a family of four making less than $75,000 a year."