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09 Apr 08

Where did the tables turn? - Roger Simon - Politico.com

  • Except in Iowa, in January of this year, they did vote. Younger voters represented 22 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucus— the highest youth turnout in any state so far — and Obama got 57 percent of them to Clinton’s 11 percent. The youth vote, in fact, turned out to be about 30 percent of Obama’s total vote.
  • But to my way of thinking, Clinton’s loss in Iowa was a critical one, because she was no longer inevitable. She had let Obama into the game. She had let a candidate with money and a message get off to a running start. She had allowed him to become a credible candidate.
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Where did the tables turn? - Roger Simon - Politico.com

  • Clinton’s campaign strategy in Iowa was a traditional one: Target those voters who had voted in the past — the most reliable kind of voters there are — and then get them to the polls. And some Clinton aides were openly contemptuous of Obama’s attempt to “expand the universe” and bring in younger voters.
27 Mar 08

Clinton: Wright Would Not Have Been My Pastor - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

  • Wright would not have been her pastor because of his inflamatory soundbytes, yet her actual former pastor Rev. William Procanick has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 7 year old girl. Here we have another attempt by Senator Clinton to fling mud that shouldn’t be flung.
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