Truemors
Memo to the media, you got it really wrong. Again. So much for the Hillary death watch reports.
By late afternoon word in the establishment media was that the
Clinton campaign was on life support. Pollster Mark Penn was on his way
out, and old Clintonites such as James Carville were about to make
their way back into the fray. There was even talk of Hillary dropping
out early to stave off the embarrassment that would come from defeat
after defeat.
The New York Times
wrote: Key campaign officials may be replaced. She may start calling
herself the underdog. Donors would receive pleas that it is do-or-die
time. And her political strategy could begin mirroring that of Rudolph
W. Giuliani, a Republican rival, by focusing on populous states like
California and New York whose primaries are Feb. 5. Everything is on
the table inside Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign if she loses.
The Wall Street Journal:
“Already some Clinton associates have begun lobbying for her early exit
if she loses the primary by a big margin, as polls suggest she could.
Several Senate colleagues who have sat on the fence are now in talks
with Obama advisers about endorsing the freshman Illinois senator over
his more experienced colleague… And the Clinton campaign is considering
effectively ceding South Carolina, which votes a week later.
Politico’s Mike Allen reported:
“The emerging strategy - assuming the results are as bad as Clinton
aides now fear - will start with a concerted plea to voters, donors and
the news media to hold off writing campaign obituaries until after the
Feb. 5 primaries.” Allen mentions Solis Doyle and Penn by name in the
staff that could be fired list.
And they all were wrong. How? Who knows right now, but I’m sure the
media will tell they know exactly why she won, which if funny because
all day they were the same people giving us every reason why she was
going to lose. And they were doing it all day!
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