It's on a real race!

I will have to say that I too felt sorry for Hillary before the crying incident because Obama and Edwards were ganging up on her.
Highlights From NH Survey

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— Some highlights of final data from exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday.
WOMEN MOVE TOWARD CLINTON
In a crucial turnabout from last week in Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Barack Obama among women, 46 percent to 34 percent. Obama had edged her among women in Iowa. While Obama had a large advantage among New Hampshire men, women made up 57 percent of the Democratic vote in New Hampshire Tuesday. John Edwards trailed with both genders. Among Republicans, McCain had an edge among women, while he and Romney were about even with men.


Media: Kristol On Clinton: "It's The Tears. She Pretended To Cry, The Women Felt Sorry For Her, And She Won"
Politics: Batten Down The Hatches: It's A Race!
... independents, who can vote in either primary and comprised about four in 10 voters in each party's contest. Obama bested Clinton among them, 41 percent to 31 percent. John McCain led Mitt Romney among independents voting in the GOP contest, 40 percent to 27 percent. Obama and McCain also had done well among independents in Iowa, where those voters are a much smaller share of the vote. In a possible litmus test of where the excitement is this year, about six in 10 independents opted to vote in the Democratic contest.
THIS YEAR'S BUZZWORD...
... is change, of course, and more than half of Democrats said they were looking for a candidate who could make it happen. As in Iowa, Obama got the biggest part of that group, 55 percent. Twenty-eight percent chose Clinton Tuesday, compared to 19 percent of them who picked Clinton in Iowa. One in five Democrats said they wanted a candidate with experience, a group Clinton carried overwhelmingly with 71 percent. Clinton and Edwards were tied among those seeking an empathetic candidate.
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Hillary Clinton Victory: Media Says It Was The Crying
Huffington Post January 9, 2008 09:05 AM
From the NY Times:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York rode a wave of female support to a surprise victory over Senator Barack Obama in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday night. In the Republican primary, Senator John McCain of Arizona revived his presidential bid with a Lazarus-like victory.......Several New Hampshire women, some of them undecided until Tuesday, said that a galvanizing moment for them had been Mrs. Clinton's unusual display of emotion on Monday as she described the pressures of the race and her goals for the nation -- a moment Mrs. Clinton herself acknowledged as a breakthrough.
Arianna discusses this in her latest blog:
But none of endemic New Hampshire Clinton advantages would have delivered victory were it not for Hillary -- either through desperation or exhaustion -- finally letting down her guard and showing her human side.Several columnists have also alluded Hillary's emotional moment as one of the reasons for her her win.
Conservative columnist Bill Kristol said, "It's the tears. She pretended to cry, the women felt sorry for her, and she won."

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Can you image 40% of the voters in the primary were not declareded party members. If ever there was a case for registration requirments New Hampshire is it.These non affiliated voters determined who won the Dems Repub primaries, it nuts'.

My concern is all those independent men who voted for Obama should Hillary win the nomination will those male stump jumpers vote for her? Perhaps if McCain wins they will vote for him in November.
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January 08, 2008Read More: Bill Clinton
Brazile on Bill: 'Depressing'
On CNN today, Donna Brazile lit into Bill Clinton with a vehemence that raised eyebrows in both of their circles:
Brazile: I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn't take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It's time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It's an insult. And I will tell you, as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing.
[snip]Blitzer: But tell me why, as an African-American, Donna, you feel that the president's comments weren't appropriate.Brazile: First of all, if Bill Bennett [also on the show] had said some of the things that Bill Clinton is saying about Barack Obama, I would have called Bill Bennett out of his name and said that Bill Bennett should shut his mouth because he is not speaking in the right tone. I think his tone, I think calling Barack Obama a kid, he is a United States senator. He's experienced. The people of Illinois elected him, and regardless of what kind of items are on his résumé, this is a man who has worked all his life. He's proven; he's been a college professor. I don't have to give Barack Obama a résumé. I'm not for anyone at this point. But I think for Bill Clinton to go out of his way to become a distraction to Hillary Clinton and to launch the kind of attack on Obama is just out of character for Bill Clinton. I think it's time he helps Hillary talk about her message and not go down this road.
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Awe, I am such a fan of Donna Brazile (even at one point wanting to draft her as chair of the DNC) and I'm saddened that it seems like she played the race card here :-\ As a minority, that's depressing to me too Donna . . .

Posted By: LawSchoolDem January 08, 2008 at 08:08 PM

I too thought she went over the top when I watched her say this stuff it was clearly the race thing and I am sure there will be more of the race card in the future. It's bad for whites to do it but not for Blacks!

Geeze What a surprise a black mayor and legislature coming out for Obama!
Shirley Franklin says Barack Obama is her choice
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The overlooked McCain-Obama race in New Hampshire
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Blogwatch: Oh, dear. The tears

Shirley Franklin says Barack Obama is her choice
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 08:32 AM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With New Hampshire over, the Georgia primary began in earnest this morning.
On an Atlanta morning radio show, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin just declared Barack Obama to be her choice in the Democratic race for president — putting herself opposite John Lewis, her mentor Andrew Young, and members of the Maynard Jackson clan. They’re on the side of Hillary Clinton.
“I think he’s doing a terrific job,” Franklin said. “Barack’s speech in Iowa comes as close to anything that I have seen that speaks to his own experience but also gives voice to the restlessness we have about where America is going to be in the future.
“So I’m really excited about his candidacy,” she said. “I’m excited about all of the candidates, but especially him.”
Franklin’s declaration was foreshadowed on Monday by an endorsement of Obama by state Sen. Kasim Reed, one of her top political strategists.
In the same interview on V-103, Franklin also plugged a local option sales tax for the city sewer system — which will also be on the Feb. 5 ballot.
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The leaders of Emily's List, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), have become ensnared -- through their own actions -- in the complexities of federal campaign law.
Emily's List, an organization that backs Democratic women candidates who support abortion rights, and the two labor unions, have each set up independent expenditure (IE) subsidiaries for this election cycle to be able to finance thousands of dollars worth of television ads in support of Clinton.
Under the federal election law, these 'IEs' must completely sever all communication with their parent groups. The staff running the Emily's List IE is barred from talking to Ellen Malcolm and all other leaders of Emily's List. The same rules apply to AFT and AFSCME.
After Clinton came in third in the Iowa caucuses on January 3, staffers working on the three pro-Clinton IE operations not only discussed creation of an anti-Obama 527, the Huffington Post has been reliably told, but even went to the extent of broaching the idea to a number of Democratic operatives to see if any of them would be interested in running such a 527.
IE staffers did not discuss the 527 proposal with officials of Emily's List, AFSCME or AFT. To do so would have put them at risk of criminal prosecution for violating federal election statutes.
Now, after publication of a report earlier today by the Huffington Post on the proposed pro-Clinton, anti-Obama 527, AFSCME president Gerald McEntee and AFT president Edward J. McElroy -- ignoring the distinction between the 'parent' groups they head, and their separately regulated IE 'offspring' -- have asked the Huffington Post to clarify this matter.
McEntee and McElroy may or may not have had any idea as to what their IE sub-organizations -- financed by them, but independent of their control in the arcane world of campaign finance rules -- are up to. If they were to engage in strategy coordination they would have broken the law. No one has come forward to make that allegation, and Huffington Post did not report that anyone had.
Spokespersons for both organizations have made statements that neither McEntee nor McElroy have talked to staff hired to run the two labor IEs.
Ellen Malcolm of Emily List said through spokesperson that no member of the parent organization had conferred with the staff of the Emily's List IE.
The Huffington Post stands by its story, which accurately reported:
"Three groups conducting independent expenditure campaigns in behalf of Clinton - Emily's List, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - have explored the possibility of trying to put together a multi-million dollar effort privately dubbed the Anybody-But-Obama 527 Committee, but they have run into problems finding any Democratic operative willing to become the director of a campaign against the man who now is the odds-on favorite to become the party's nominee."