http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2923
by Patrick J. Buchanan
All politics is local, said the late House Speaker “Tip” O’Neill.
Tip was wrong. All politics is http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2947 – as we just rediscovered in the New Hampshire primary.
With Obama surging and Hillary reeling after a third-place finish in Iowa, it seemed all the dreams of a Clinton restoration would come crashing down.
All pollsters predicted it. All the pundits agreed. And all the anti-Clintonites, sensing this was the kill, came streaming out of their closets to mock Hillary and hail Barack, as they once hailed Bill.“The Hun is always at your feet or at your throat,” said Winston Churchill.
Undecided Democratic voters and independents, especially http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2893. The maternal instinct kicked in, hard. Women poured out to pick Hillary up, dust her off, and put her back on her feet, back into the race and back into the lead.
Hillary’s victory became a stunning upset because no one had predicted it and no one had expected it after Iowa and all those polls showing Obama pulling away.
What happened in New Hampshire was a backlash against press, pollsters, pundits and piling on. When Bill Clinton suggested the press was in the tank for http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2939.
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