A friend points out — and he’s right — that another key moment in Saturday night’s debate, beside Hillary’s impassioned statement of her qualifications for job, came late when the moderator asked her about her likability or lack of it.
It was her best moment and Obama’s worst …
Hillary ran well among voters who decided their preference late in the campaign.
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Based on what I was feeling, there were two turning points for Clinton in the past week. One was a report that people were chanting “Iron my shirt” at her during a rally. The other was John Edwards’ idiotic statements about Clinton tearing up at an event. Mix that in with the subtle media digs at Clinton’s gender in recent months (descrptions of what she’s wearing, how she “emasculates” men, etc.), and I think you had a tremendous push back from women, and men, who are tired of the misogyny underlying this campaign. It swayed me toward Clinton the past few days, even as I cheered for an Obama coronation.
With the Supreme Court hearing the Indiana voter ID case today, supporters of the law still struggle–mightily–to produce evidence of actual voter fraud.
Chris Matthews on Hillary’s victory: She’s only competitive for the presidency because Bill “messed around.”
Jim Sleeper: If I vote for Obama, it will be because my yearning to get beyond race will impel me to roll the dice.
Zogby: I did have Hillary coming on strong in New Hampshire â but the sample size was so small I couldn’t say so publicly.
They say a week is a lifetime in politics. And I’m sure the last week felt like a lifetime for Hillary Clinton. So with Hillary’s stunning come from behind victory last night in New Hampshire we went back and picked out what we thought we several of the key moments between her defeat in Iowa on Thursday and her victory yesterday evening. Check it out. You may think it looks different now with the benefit of hindsight …
Larry Johnson explains how right-wingers are up in arms over the fact that an ‘Islamofascism’ yakker named Stephen Coughlin has been canned at the Defense Department.
Sen. Johnson (D-SD) endorsing Obama.
Remember, Obama has strong ties to the Daschle world. And Johnson is Daschle’s protege.