Posted by
Roxanna M. on Friday, January 04, 2008 3:48:08 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to the coronation, Hillary Clinton came in third. Her campaign is no longer a cakewalk to inevitability. She's going to actually have to give people a reason to vote for her, which she hasn't done yet.
There's a joke going around the internet about Brett Favre's wife playing instead of him. She's been married to him. She's ridden on the team plane. She's watched games. You get the gist.
What if Bill Clinton had never been President. What would Hillary be running on then? She wouldn't even be running because nobody would ever have heard of her. Which is exactly her problem. She has no identity outside of him. No experience outside of him. No political accomplishments outside of him. In many ways she's the better of the two, but she's also the lesser of the two.
New Hampshire has been referred to as her "firewall." I think her chances are better there than in South Carolina. What if she loses both of them?
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Barack Obama did the best among voters 17-24. Knowing that people of that age do not turn out in droves to vote, he should be more than a little worried that that's his best demographic.
Suppose he were to get the nomination, what does he have to offer. He's a man of almost no consequence, politically speaking. His state record is undistinguished, except for his penchant for voting "present" when he should have been taking a stand one way or the other. Further, he has spent almost his entire career as a US senator running for President.
When it comes right down to it, are people - in these dangerous times - actually going to vote for a man whose only real accomplishment is self-promotion.
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Mike Huckabee did well in a state with a lot of evangelical Christians. Good luck in New York, Massachusetts, California, etc.
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Mitt Romney came in second and is behind in New Hampshire.
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Edwards came in second and is running out of money. Giuliani came in fifth and is running out of money. Richardson barely hung on. Biden and Dodd threw in the towel. Kucinich wasn't even a blip on the screen. McCain came in fourth but thinks that New Hampshire will turn things around for him.
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No, there was no good news from Iowa.