This morning on POTUS08, I heard that Hillary’s latest 3.a.m. ad — you know, the one where the White House Situation Room awakens the president to let her know about increasing foreclosures and the markets falling, presumably when they closed eleven hours earlier — isn’t working, that it’s testing well only with previously-committed supporters.

That result isn’t particularly shocking, and it seems that the first problem with the ad is the attempt to shoehorn the issue of the moment (the economy, housing bubble, and market instability) into a format designed to spotlight foreign policy/national security issues.

The ad just needed a tweak — “It’s 3 a.m., and your children are asleep. But you’re awake, worried about how you’re going to pay your mortgage when the markets are crashing and foreclosures are hitting record levels. Hillary Clinton would do X, while Barack Obama would only do Y, and John McCain would only do Z. This April 22, vote Hillary Clinton. So you can rest easy, just like your children.”

One of my reader dissects the internals of recent Pennsylvania polls and notes, “She is losing support among the Whites..most likely losing BIG among White Males – HRC has this white males problem all along – look at Texas…but in states like Ohio, the support of White Females help to neutralize that disadvantage…I think the Bosnia thing did a lot of damage, and the Penn-Colombia flap affects the white union votes…”

I wonder if the previously Hillary-centric demographics in Pennsylvania — the elderly, union members, Catholics, white working-class — are the ones more likely to snort derisively when learning that Hillary’s dangerous Tuzla Dash took place only in her own mind.

This reader noted that Barron’s made a wild prediction of Obama carrying Pennsylvania, a prediction that no longer looks quite so farfetched…