David Shuster still used an appalling metaphor to describe Chelsea Clinton’s work on the campaign trail and phone calls to superdelegates. But the more Chelsea is used on the campaign trail, the excuse that she doesn’t have to talk to the press because she’s just the candidate’s daughter, and has a right to a private life, doesn’t hold water…

But although she urged questioners to “ask whatever may be on your minds”, the same offer was not extended to the watching media. For while the adult children of several other candidates have also lobbied for votes, Ms Clinton, who witnessed her father’s private life being exposed in lurid detail, is alone among them in flatly refusing to talk to journalists.Even a nine-year-old “reporter” for an online children’s newspaper was recently rebuffed, if politely, when she tried to asked an innocent question about her father. When schoolgirl Sydney Rieckhoff asked “Do you think your Dad would be a good First Man in the White House?” she was firmly told: “I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press, and that applies to you, unfortunately, even though I think you’re cute.”

Every other surrogate for Hillary on the campaign trail – Madeline Albright, Wes Clark, members of Congress, Bill – answers questions from reporters regularly. If you want to urge others to vote a certain way, then answering a few questions from reporters doesn’t seem like an unfair burden. She always has the option of answering, “no comment.”

And before we get into the reflexive, “she’s just a kid” thinking, Chelsea is 27.

Today, Hillary holds town halls in De Pere and Wausau and Chelsea visits Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. At night, Hillary and Chelsea rally supporters in Madison. Meanwhile, Chelsea’s friends have penned a “Make Chelsea’s Mom President” column for the University of Wisconsin at Madison Badger Herald.