<p>For a glimpse of what life might be like if Hillary Clinton’s firewalls in Ohio and Texas don’t hold on Tuesday, check out the latest from The New York Observer.<br /><br />

The pink sheet has an <a title="interview with Mark Penn" href="http://www.observer.com/2008/micro-mark" id="m3gq">interview with Mark Penn</a>, Clinton’s top strategist — and author of &quot;Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes — who claims he’s been misunderstood.</p>

<blockquote>[Penn] said that the emerging story line&mdash;that his poll-obsessed, microtargeting approach had produced a plodding, uninspiring campaign&mdash;was a bum rap. &ldquo;The campaign has been about big goals, health care, ending the Iraq war, new energy, the future,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There was a misunderstanding that this campaign was about small things. It never was. If anything, the Obama campaign has microtargeted constituencies.&rdquo; </blockquote>

<p>Is he saying the Obama camp stole his playbook?</p>