Dumpster diving for background on insidious campaign practices that work so well 

Dive deep, if you can spare the time, to learn about the kind of campaign Hillary is running. I think learning more about Mark Penn's roots is key to getting the most out of the sensible concepts Dave Winer has been bringing us through his interviews with progressive thinktanker George Lakoff.

- May 2007 article in the Nation about Penn, mentioning he was brought into the White House by Dick Morris...

... whose triangulation genius is skillfully picked apart by BBC documentary maker Adam Curtis in the Century of the Self series. Start with part 4 if you're in a hurry and want to get to the American politics bits (the Clinton part comes up at about 27:00). But then do go back and watch the whole series to soak up the background based in Freud and the birth of the whole PR industry, and leading to activities of the Rand Corporation and modern triangulation tricks.