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...scope of Barack Obama's victory in Iowa has shaken the Clinton machine down to its bolts. Donors are panicking. The campaign has been making a round of calls to reassure notoriously fickle "superdelegates" - elected officials and party regulars who are awarded convention spots by virtue of their titles and positions - who might be reconsidering their decisions to back the candidate who formerly looked like a sure winner. And internally, a round of recriminations is being aimed at her chief strategist, Mark Penn, as the representative of everything about her pseudo-incumbent campaign that has been too cautious, too arrogant...
...Added another adviser: "You're going to see some very sharp media now." That suggests the next round of Clinton ads will go beyond the previous gentle references to Obama's lack of experience and begin to look at, for instance, inconsistency in his voting record. They are looking at issues like gun control, where he previously took a harder stand that may not play well with gun-loving voters in New Hampshire, and health care, where he previously expressed support for a government-run health care system. Clinton plans to exploit every whiff of inconsistency...
...North Dakota and New Mexico. We're going to California and Texas and New York, and we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House." Then, Dean let out the yawp heard round the world, branding his remarks forever as the "I have a scream" speech. The lesson? Don't oversell sell the viability thing...
Romney told Fox news just before 9 p.m. Eastern time, "Congratulations on the first round to Mike, and we will go on to New Hampshire...
...first tallies showed that only Edwards (71), Clinton (58) and Obama (47) had more than the 29 supporters required to reach the 15% viability threshold to continue to the next round. Only one person was undecided. Biden's supporters, not ready to give up, tried to convince the supporters of the other bottom-tier candidates into regrouping with them. But the three leading contenders were not going to let that happen; all three groups started calling at the small knot of neighbors who had supported the remaining contenders. "We've got good sandwiches,"one man from the Clinton contingent shouted...