Posted by: McQ on Friday, January 04, 2008 A week ago, we caught Hillary Clinton telling a political war story about a dangerous trip she went on in which she had to dodge snipers with a sprint from the aircraft. As we learned, ironically from her own autobiography, that wasn't really a true depiction that event. No matter - it helped frame her "experience" in a way she wished to have it framed. And, other than the blogosphere, who's going to question her? Now we find her trying to pretend that Iowa was always a state in which she was the underdog. When on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos recently, she said: "I think because it's so close, you know, when I started here I was in single digits. I mean nobody expected me to be doing as well as I'm doing in Iowa."Well not exactly. In fact, the Washington Post, that's just not the truth (wow, I know you're surprised - a Clinton not telling the truth): Hillary Clinton paid her first visit to Iowa in more than three years on January 27, 2007, so that date can be used as the official start of her campaign. The first poll taken after that visit by the polling group ARG reported that she had the support of 35 per cent of Iowa voters at that time, against 18 percent for John Edwards and 14 percent for Barack Obama. A Zogby poll a week later put Clinton and Edwards at 24 percent each, and Obama at 14 percent.What she can't and won't admit is she blew Iowa big time. And that indicates a very real possibility that all of the polls that have essentially portrayed her as the inevitable nominee are full of beans. [But then, we've been warning everyone about that for quite some time. Now you can begin to pay some attention to the polls in NH. But FL? Fuggitaboudit.] It will become much clearer after NH, where she should be a very strong contender and is expected to be the winner. If she stumbles there as bad as she did in Iowa, the words "Hillary" and "inevitable" will probably never be found in the same sentence again. |
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