For Clinton, Retooled Campaign and Loyal Voters Add Up

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Retooled Campaign and Loyal Voters Add Up
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: January 9, 2008

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Clintons rarely make the same mistake twice.

In Iowa, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stood defeated and surrounded herself with graying politicians and Clinton administration veterans, including former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and a former presidential buddy, Terry McAuliffe. But at the cavernous gymnasium where Mrs. Clinton claimed victory on Tuesday night, the scene was a do-over, a chance to show a re-energized campaign. Aides carefully packed the aluminum stands with children, teenagers and young adults, along with just the faintest sprinkling of elders. Hardly a veteran politician was to be seen. She waded through the crowd and climbed a small stage where she stood alone — President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, were seated nearby — and laid out her new campaign message. It said she had found words that were true to herself and that she would use that to represent the voiceless.

“Over the last week, I listened to you and, in the process, found my own voice,” she said. “We came back tonight because we spoke loudly and clearly,” Mrs. Clinton said. “So tomorrow we are going to get up, roll up our sleeves and get going.”

The Democratic campaign has been all about rhetorical borrowings on all sides, and Mrs. Clinton sounded lines echoing those of Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards. Her teary eyes on Monday in Portsmouth added to the power of her new narrative, as aides told it. As the television networks sounded her victory, Mr. McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee, declared that moment a signal of Mrs. Clinton’s lifelong passions.

The victory fires new life into her campaign and leaves the Democratic Party with the tightest of horse races. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll showed her and Mr. Obama neck and neck nationally....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/us/politics/09scene.html?hp

[Citizen Kang]

1. Don't forget Diebold!!!!!

They lined up too for the Bush/Clintons.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

2. haha

Paranoid much?

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Exit polls. They called the swing to Clinton

In 2004 exit polls called the race for Kerry. This time they picked up on the Clinton surg. There is no Diebold involved in exit polls. They are always much much much more accurate than pre-polling. That is why so many experts got suspicious in 2004. Not this time.

[avrdream]

3. Wow, I just heard the part of the speech where she said, "found my own voice".

She choked up again! Cool, more votes in Nevada and South Carolina. Show these jerks that she really is a human being after all like we supporters already knew.

[Anouka]

5. Beware of a crying woman

LOL

That's so (not) feminist.

[sandnsea]

6. Staged with teens instead of troops

Still staged. Just another make-over from the make-over queen. I can't blame the Bushies for using imagery when it obviously works so well.

[Bitwit1234]

7. The people came out to vote

not just the kids impressed by a rock star. The real people. And if the real people come out to vote this will happen again. Obama stands out as a rock star type. He has no substance. Instead of flaming Ted Kennedy he should have been working on a platform to tell the people of this country what he is going to do...just standing out on a platform and making speeches about change change change, we should tell the people what that change is....