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The big news from the campaign trail yesterday evening was an emotional moment with Hillary Clinton and a group of sympathetic, yet undecided, New Hampshire voters. When asked "how do you do it? How do you keep up ... and who does your hair?", Hillary Clinton choked up as she responded, tears welling up in her eyes. Less widely reported, however, was an incident of two men who heckled her in Salem, NH, holding signs that read "Iron My Shirt", and chanting the same slogan. As the hecklers were removed, Clinton responded "ah, the remnants of sexism" to cheers from the crowd. “I’m also running to break through the highest and hardest glass ceiling,” she told the audience.
With most polls showing Obama nearly ten points ahead in New Hampshire, it doesn't look good for Clinton. Although there is a possibility that she could do well in New Hampshire, even if she doesn't win outright, her rapid drop in the polls is troubling. According to Talking Points Memo, there is a serious debate going on within the Clinton camp about what happens if she loses in New Hampshire. One group of advisers (including, according to TMP, Danny Solis's sister Patti Solis Doyle) is urging her to withdraw from the race if she loses in New Hampshire, hoping that her reputation as a senator can be salvaged. Another group is urging her to keep running, believing that, given enough time her message will take hold.
The Republican side of the race is just as compelling and no less dramatic. John McCain, who's campaign was on the ropes this summer, is ahead of Mitt Romney in most polls, although the race is still too close to call. Mike Huckabee isn't expecting to break third place tonight, and is already planning for Florida and South Carolina. Both Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson have taken a pass on New Hampshire, focusing instead on Florida and Nevada. No matter who wins tonight, there is not likely to be a clear GOP front runner, and the Republican field won't narrow substantially until after January 29.
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Why did you lead with the news of the Democratic field, Kevin? Could it be because CHICAGOIST IS A LIBERAL CABAL?
With bile like that, it doesn't look like Pants will hold on to his Most Favored Commenter status for very long.
Don't bite the hand that feeds, Pantagrapher.
I guess I always assumed that the Democratic ticket would be some combination of Bizrack and Godzillary but with her slipping in the polls, will he go with someone else as VP? If so, who?
She's going to win because she had a good cry on national television. Really, we should consider Hillary's feelings and how SHE feels! Wake up America! Don't you know that if you don't like - she might feel bad?
I'm voting for Obama because Obama doesn't cry.
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Personally I don't care for Hilary as a candidate but those comments on the foxnews link regarding the "Iron My Shirt" guys are pretty despicable.
What an embarassingly obvious plant in Hillary's audience. This phony pageant was just part two in Hillary's last-ditch effort to secure a New Hampshire victory. First, she cries. Second, she defends her femininity. Vote for Hillary! A real woman who cries!
Give the sneaky GOP some credit - they put on a better show when it comes to spreading their propaganda. Hell, there's so much conservative propaganda that we can't possibly decipher all of it.
The response to Hillary's tears from John Edwards was basically that there's no crying in the presidency.
Does the fact that I found that hilarious make me a bad person?
Whenever I try to decided whom to vote for every four years, one phrase always sticks in the back of my mind:
"Should this person have the nuclear football with them at all times for the next four years?"
I know it's played out and cliched to think a woman would get all hormonal and go for launch codes when "Aunt Flo" is in town, but to some random people, this kind of thing will always be a negative, not some cheeky campaign shenanigan.
Mike Thoms: I'll be shocked if Obama doesn't tap Bill Richardson as his VP. He needs experience to bolster the ticket.
I can't believe we live in a country where the fact that a presidential candidate got choked up (I saw the clip and didn't even see tears; I'm pretty sure she's incapable of actually crying anyway) is a top news story. Couple that with the fact she was a woman and the implications it carries, i.e. women are more emotional therefore unfit to lead the country, makes me wonder if we've evolved as a society at all.
I'm not voting for Hillary because she's an awful candidate, not because she's a woman who showed a goddamn emotion for two minutes once.
This race is a bigger joke every day.
what did they say on Fox News?
Question about VP candidates: hasn't it been proven that the Vice Prez doesn't bolster polling? I thought I read it somewhere, but just anecdotally I don't think people give a rat's ass who the VP candidate is. If someone is on the fence, it's the presidential candidates that will swing them over, not who they add to the team.
It's not the race that's a joke, Sarah. It's the coverage.
Seeing the charming-but-cold way that Edwards threw Hillary under the bus Saturday night with his "when you advocate change, the status quo attacks" line gave me an idea that we might be looking at an Obama/Edwards ticket if things hold up.
I had no idea Edwards had those kinds of stones.
Actually, Bud Selig, I remember way back when Dubya tapped Cheney, he got a little bump in the polls because it helped smooth over some questions about his inexperience.
Oh, if only people knew then what they know now...
Sarah: Ever hear of Muskie? The fact that he cried in 1972 led coverage in the NYT and WashPo and pretty much clenched his chances for defeat. This is not a new phenomenon.
In any case, if either Barak or Hillary get the nom, either one of them will have to choose the white-est, male-est specimen they can find to reduce ethnicity and gender concerns. This means Bill Richardson is likely out.
How Spav1 picked up a history book wow! Yea Muskie cried but Hillary didn't "cry". And had some one wore a T shirt telling O'bama to shine their shoes, the whole nation would have paused. Yea I'm shocked, but not shocked that in America no body gives a F*ck. She should win now on G.P!
If Edwards was not in the race, I might have voted for her. But of course now I'm rethinking it.
Jaws of Josh, H. Clinton is smart enough not to risk her safe senate seat and repetation, but pulling such a Nixon/Rove, Atwater Republican trick
opps "reputation"
and I want my Mutha F*cking shirt!
Spook:
There is actually some debate as to whether or not Muskie actually "cried". So, what.
And Bill Clinton cried successfully all the time.
Hillary Clinton can't cry because she is a robot and this is last-minute grandstanding to try to appear more "human".
And it isn't working.
And please vote Republican, I don't want you on my side.
Mitt Romney got all choked up on "Meet the Press" last month (I get weepy watching Russert myself), and it was all over the various pundit shows.
Most of the discussion I've heard has not been whether it was appropriate for Hillary to show emotion or not, but rather if it was sincere or not. That's a question of her integrity that goes beyond gender.
Guest2, in both cases, it's also a question that pundits can only answer with speculation. Why not just let individual voters make that determination? I'd rather see political reporters and other paid observers devote column inches to questions that have legitimate, substantive answers.
In any case, if either Barak or Hillary get the nom, either one of them will have to choose the white-est, male-est specimen they can find to reduce ethnicity and gender concerns. This means Bill Richardson is likely out.
I disagree. First of all, most people don't even realize that Bill Richardson is Hispanic. And if people aren't voting for Obama because he's black, who he taps won't make any bit of difference. But for those on the fence about Obama's lack of experience, tapping someone like Bill Richardson, whose resume dwarfs that of any other candidate in the field, would pay huge dividends in pulling in those undecided voters.
In any case, if either Barak or Hillary get the nom, either one of them will have to choose the white-est, male-est specimen they can find to reduce ethnicity and gender concerns. This means Bill Richardson is likely out.
I disagree. First of all, most people don't even realize that Bill Richardson is Hispanic. And if people aren't voting for Obama because he's black, who he taps won't make any bit of difference. But for those on the fence about Obama's lack of experience, tapping someone like Bill Richardson, whose resume dwarfs that of any other candidate in the field, would pay huge dividends in pulling in those undecided voters.
I will bet anyone right now that whoever gets the VP is a white man. (And I am not counting Bill Richardson here).
The Hillary Hecklers weren't plants. There's no conspiracy. They're just dudes from a Boston radio show (WBCN's Toucher & Rich) who wanted to do a prank--a dumb prank at that.
http://bostonist.com/2008/01/08/midday_primary.php
Well, I think its more than a dumb prank, but no national or local coverage/outrage, so who cares.