Hu? Hillary won, really?
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Clinton, Elections |
Memo to the media, you got it really wrong. Again. So much for the Hillary campaign death watch reports. Instead, what a stunning turn of events in New Hampshire.
By late afternoon word in the establishment media was that the Clinton campaign was on life support. Pollster Mark Penn was on his way out, and old Clintonites such as James Carville were about to make their way back into the fray. There was even talk of Hillary dropping out early to stave off the embarrassment that would come from defeat after defeat.
The New York Times wrote: Key campaign officials may be replaced. She may start calling herself the underdog. Donors would receive pleas that it is do-or-die time. And her political strategy could begin mirroring that of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican rival, by focusing on populous states like California and New York whose primaries are Feb. 5. Everything is on the table inside Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign if she loses.
The Wall Street Journal: “Already some Clinton associates have begun lobbying for her early exit if she loses the primary by a big margin, as polls suggest she could. Several Senate colleagues who have sat on the fence are now in talks with Obama advisers about endorsing the freshman Illinois senator over his more experienced colleague… And the Clinton campaign is considering effectively ceding South Carolina, which votes a week later.
Politico’s Mike Allen reported: “The emerging strategy - assuming the results are as bad as Clinton aides now fear - will start with a concerted plea to voters, donors and the news media to hold off writing campaign obituaries until after the Feb. 5 primaries.” Allen mentions Solis Doyle and Penn by name in the staff that could be fired list.
And they all were wrong. How? Who knows right now, but I’m sure the media will tell they know exactly why she won, which if funny because all day they were the same people giving us every reason why she was going to lose. And they were doing it all day!
She’s a Clinton in New Hampshire, so you never count her out (even if you work for a large media conglomerate).
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of course Hillary won. Hello, she was the bilderberg mettings!
meetings, sorry
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