I guess I don't know enough about the internal politics of the Clinton campaign to know if they're getting rid of the right person or the wrong person from my point of view.  Obviously, if there's one person I'd like to see banished from the human realm forever it would have to be Mark Penn, but that's not really the point.

Mark Penn needs to go. He makes Karl Rove look like a saint.

The way the Hillary camp is explaining it, it sounds like she was fired. On CNN, the reporter said staff in the campaign were getting tired of Doyle and blaimed many of the failures of communication and wasted money on her.

They should have fired Penn though, that's their problem.

I wonder what this means for Texas?

Firing a high-ranking Latina ... what say all of the micro-targeting Clinton supporters about such a move?

Patti was not fired. She will remain as a senior advisor to the Clinton campaign. You might want to actually read Patti's statement and Hillary's---part of Hillary's below~~~~

Patti Solis Doyle has done an extraordinary job in getting us to this point - within reach of the nomination - and I am enormously grateful for her friendship and her outstanding work. And, as Patti has said, this already has been the longest presidential campaign in history and one that has required enormous sacrifices of everyone and our families. I look forward to her continued advice in the months ahead. Patti and I have worked with Maggie Williams for more than a decade. I am lucky to have Maggie on board and I know she will lead our campaign with great skill towards the nomination.

It was time for Patti to go. Mark Penn needs to go next. Hillary should have had a more tested and steady hand at the helm of the campaign to start with.

What the Clinton people are starting to realize is that without quick change in the campaign, and soon, they are going to lose.

How do you explain Clinton wining the primaries and Obama crushing her in the caucuses? Organization.

The Bush way is to pretend like everything is okay.

The Clinton way is to start firing people.

Different management strategies.

Link please?

I have been reading official campaign memos not Obama leaning blogs.

If you have a link to this supposed rock solid truth, a link showing Pattis will no longer be a part of the campaign in any capacity and was fired. Please...share it with the class.

And NO...rumors at blogs and CNN do not count.

You know who Mark Penn reminds me of?

Matt Millen.  He's highly paid, has underperformed and continues to have a job for no apparent reason.

In Penn's defense, he hasn't drafted wide receivers every year.

I hope HRC make some major changes. I know for a fact the getting out to vote - Phone bank in Bayarea was terrible. Obama folks were calling people starting Jan. They had people with street signs in every major intersection. Visibility make a great perception. Also Obama holds meeting in larger stadiums and fills it up with 20000 people. MSM shows that and mentions their numbers while HRC holds smaller meetings with
3000/5000 people.

Bring Carville or Begala Back :)

The Ground game in Texas, Ohio , Wisconsin and PA
matters now. I cannot understand why BHO has better ground operations than HRC

Send another 50$ .

amazing-  somebody has updated her wikipedia entry already to include today's firing...

A friend asked me today "Is it over" asking if Obama won last night... I can't help but think a lot of people around the country are wondering the same thing.

I agree.  She made so much money, why can't she use it for ground operations.  Unless those operations are truly grass-roots.  But having raised $10 million, then where is it going???

She needs ground operations in Wisconsin immediately.....

Should have made changes after NH, we'll see if Maggie can move quickly before the 19th. She has been in place since NH so maybe she is set to go.

She's tough and competent, and battle-tested as well.  As Chief-of-Staff to the First Lady she was tangentially involved in the Chung contribution controversy, of which she was never formally charged with any wrong-doing I might add:

With regard to Maggie Williams, I'd like to make a comment about that. She is an honorable person. She was put in a rather unusual circumstance, and as a courtesy, she agreed to do what the relevant regulation plainly provides for, which is to forward the check on to the Democratic National Committee.

Now, in retrospect, with all the publicity that's attended the whole contribution issue, would it have been better if Maggie Williams had said, "Look, I can do this under the regulations, but I've decided I shouldn't do it and I want you to go mail it in yourself or take it over there yourself"? That would have been a better thing to do.

And in the future, I expect that the White House will follow that course should such an occasion ever arise again.

President Bill Clinton - Transcript of President Clinton's News Conference Washington Post 8 Mar 97

She's is a smart and capable operator with a media speciality.  Time is short however.

How in the world does she take the hit instead of Mark Penn or Terry McCaulfie?

From what I read about Patti Solis Doyle in a NY Times article, I found her resume to be so scant that the post of campaign manager seemed a little bit of a reach.  I think the adviser role is more appropriate.

Someone had to go. There have been some glaring missteps. Hillary was talking about being outspent, but there must be organizational issues.

I have not received any calls from the Clinton campaign; got three robocalls from Obama; got a leaflet dropped at my door from Obama. Where the f*^% is Clinton here in Virginia! I'm not even that far from campaign HQ. I have not had the time to go get yard sign myself but may have to tomorow because I really feel a need to plant atleast one Clinton sign while she's still in this thing. I'm super frustrated.

"Clinton Wins Ohio, Texas - Campaign back on track"

Maggie will get a lot of praise.

Shake up now, and when the returns from Tx/Oh come in (even though she would have won them anyway) it looks like she stumbled, and is now the comeback kid.

She was the one that everyone thought was gone after NH. I still think that at the end of the day that it is Hillary, Bill and Penn making all the decisions. This sounds like something for media consumption.

Interesting quote by her new campaign manager, from the NYT:

In an interview with The New York Times in 1999, Ms. Williams said of Mrs. Clinton: "The biggest mistake of the American press is thinking they know her. You know, people think she's such a big lib. I think she's extremely conservative. I think she has more in common with people in upstate New York than in New York City, in a lot of ways."