Rove Op-Ed: “Why Hillary Won”
Is Rove right?
HP-From Karl Rove’s op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal:
Mrs. Clinton won a narrow victory in New Hampshire for four reasons. First, her campaign made a smart decision at its start to target women Democrats, especially single women. It has been made part of the warp and woof of her campaign everywhere. This focus didn’t pay off in Iowa, but it did in New Hampshire.
Second, she had two powerful personal moments. The first came in the ABC debate on Saturday, when WMUR TV’s Scott Spradling asked why voters were “hesitating on the likeability issue, where they seem to like Barack Obama more.” Mrs. Clinton’s self-deprecating response — “Well, that hurts my feelings” — was followed by a playful “But I’ll try to go on.”
You couldn’t help but smile. It reminded Democrats what they occasionally like about her. Then Mr. Obama followed with a needless and dismissive, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
Her remarks helped wash away the memory of her angry replies to attacks at the debate’s start. His trash talking was an unattractive carryover from his days playing pickup basketball at Harvard, and capped a mediocre night.
Rove leaves out the most important reason for Hillary’s victory….she’s white in a state that is almost 100% white. Most pundits acknowledged this simple fact after they realized how wrong they were prior to the vote.
Even Obama hinted at how significant it was for a black man to finish a close second in all white NH.
“Hillary LOST the paper ballot count but WON the optical scan ballot count. Obama WON the paper ballot count but LOST the optical scan ballot count.”
http://tinyurl.com/2e3xa6
What an incredibly racist statement, Bart. What a knack, you should get a job writing for two-bit backwater newsletters.