I commend you for a positive diary on your candidate. While I strongly believe Edwards is the best choice, I will not tarnish your positive diary. Best wishes!!

Those are interesting numbers, and a very good sign for Democratic chances in 2008.

Sounds good to me silver spring. I think we're looking awfully good in 2008.

I can't wait to make this woman president!

That poll will make him mad!

Clinton rolls.

Here's a link to a New Republic blog that discusses HRC impressing Iowa voters on the stump:

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump /archive/2007/11/20/hillary-in-her-eleme nt.aspx

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Say what you will about her limitations as a public speaker, she's very good at these small-town events, which draw a couple hundred people at a time. In the debates and her high-profile speeches, she can come off as kind of an Iron Lady--not an altogether bad thing for a presidential candidate, but not exactly inviting either. Yesterday she struck me as more of a nurturing-mother type.

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There was also this: A little earlier in the evening, we in the press section heard some murmuring from a man who was either drunk or unstable or both. Pretty soon the murmuring turned into outright heckling. And, within a couple minutes, the entire crowd was aware that something uncomfortable was about to happen. Hillary was the calmest person in the room. She looked at the heckler and practically cooed: "Just a minute, sir. You'll get a chance. You'll get a chance." You would have thought she was talking to an over-eager first-grader. Of course, maybe it's easier to be calm when you have a Secret Service detail at the ready (the man was promptly hustled out into the street). But I've never seen a candidate handle something that disruptive with such poise.
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ademption: I don't think that HRC's campaign is down in the dumps as the media particularly MSNBC would like to portray it. However, that's the perception out there now and it's great to see HRC stepping up her campaigning. She knows that this race is a marathon and she keeps plugging away like the work horse she is....

She's got it going on- let's roll on to the nomination- I'm as tired of this phase as everyone else probably is.

Any poll that has Rudi Guilliani rated over 50% in both honesty and ethics, must by definition, be a poll of idiots.

Worthless...

I don't just get it.  Hillary pretty much leads by wide margins in every state, except Iowa.  Yet the media, Edwards and Obama supporters continue to say that Hillary is slipping b/c she's leading in Iowa.

Iowa is just one state, isn't it?  I understand that it's the first Primary state, but are many of you saying that as Iowa goes, so goes rest of the country?

A new poll in NV came out today showing Hillary leading by 25.  

I think Hillary can afford to lose.  However, the media and her rivals want to make Iowa the be all, end all state.

Again, an excellent post from SILVER SPRING.  

From all the bashing and doom-and-gloom painting by CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and the remaining anti-Clinton talking heads, one would never know that Senator Clinton's Las Vegas debate performance has left her more commanding than ever in national poll match-ups.

Her huge national poll leads this close to primaries are unprecedented.  

The MSM has long ago bought into the mantra of their darling, Senator Barack Obama, that the only thing that really matters is lily-white and unrepresentative Iowa, where Obama has pumped his megamillions for a full year--and the rest of the states be damned.

Even a 14-point lead in New Hampshire at this stage, with all the daily dose of hammering she receives from the national press, and nearly every one of her Democratic and Republican rivals, is truly amazing.

Of course the media is all about spin.  So if, for example, Senator Obama now has a four point lead in Iowa in one poll, but within the margin of error, that means he is "rising."  

And if Senator Obama rises by two points (again within the margin of error) in a New Hampshire poll, whereas Senator Clinton remains extremely strong there, rather than earlier being astronomically strong there, why then, that must mean she is "falling."

Naturally this negates the significance of the Las Vegas debate in which media honey Senator Obama was simply dreadful, by all accounts, as was former Senator Edwards, boringly shrill.

The MSM must make the general public believe that the Clintons are not "honest and trustworthy," much as the MSM did for almost all of the 1990s.  

The same forces behind President Bill Clinton's Impeachment are at work anew--the MSM simply must prevent the return of another Clinton White House.

At this stage the only way to prevent that is through pushing Obama.  The only hope of the MSM is that they can perpetuate the Obama mythology in time to prevent a Clinton primary landslide.

Personally, the Obama and Edwards folk have been so filthy in their attacks on the Clintons, I could vote for neither one, under any circumstances.

As a lifelong Democrat, who has never once voted the GOP side in a presidential election, my making this statement should indicate the length to which their campaigns have already helped to decimate the Democratic Party.

I view Bill and Hillary Clinton as heroes of my party, much as my parents and grandparents viewed Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as heroes.  One doesn't touch the sacred cows of one's own party.  No GOP candidate dares lay a glove on Ronald Reagan, whom the MSM created and still adores.

Truth be told, the MSM is badly frustrated.  Unlike Obama, a mythology of their creation, the Clintons owe the MSM nothing and never will.

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton achieved power being bashed and savaged by the MSM, presided over peace and prosperity being bashed and savaged by the MSM, and achieved brilliant post-presidential leadership positions, also being bashed and savaged by the MSM.

But they have something Obama will never have--the bona fide Democrat, not the borderline Independent and Republican that Obama glorifies--that crowd that bought into the MSM of anti-Clinton hatred so very long ago.  Those are the Obama followers, in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

Even Oprah Winfrey helped to soften the image of the incompetent GWB by having him appear on her program and make him more palatable to the masses.  She too, bought into the diatribe on then candidate Al Gore, that he was much "too stiff and wooden."

Today, GWB, a longtime media honey, is widely considered the worst of all United States presidents, having left the nation in shambles.

Today, Al Gore is a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.  Senator Hillary Clinton is a twice-elected and extremely popular Senator from New York.  And former President Bill Clinton is the most popular political figure in the world.

Yes, the MSM really knows how to pick them--from senile movie star Reagan to lisping hasn't got a clue GHWB (the elder) to wholly incompetent GWB II.

What a motley crew indeed.  All the Clintons and Gores ever did was preside over peace and prosperity, solicit peace pacts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and make our environment truly hallowed.

Today, another wholly incompetent with a dubious, Senatorial record including many key missed votes, would have us believe, as championed by the MSM that gave us Reagan, and Bush I and II, that he has all the answers.  He's a "straight-shooter," even if he doesn't himself vote on those key issues, concerning which he rails about in his chief rival, Hillary Clinton.

Senator Barack Obama is this year's George Walker Bush: stuck-on-himself, petulant, incompetent and ill-prepared, who savages his opposition when they would dare confront his own vaulted view of himself.

That is why both Obama and Edwards were roundly booed by that very Democratic audience in Las Vegas--it was a warning cry from hard-core Democrats like myself: Democrats, above all, must leave our Clinton heroes alone!

Naturally the MSM wouldn't understand it--nor those borderline voters in Iowa and New Hampshire who only know Clinton hate, and define the Clintons through that hate.

Of course, the most gifted politician of our time, Bill Clinton, proved that you neither state to prevail and win the presidency.

Whatever happens in unrepresentative Iowa is irrelevant in this coming year of front-loaded big state primaries.  

As the national poll numbers show, where Hillary's leads remain astronomical, she will indeed virtually sweep her way to the nomination.

Unfortunately for the MSM and Obama, hard-core Democrats just don't buy into the anti-Clinton line.  

These are the Democrats who stuck by Bill Clinton in the worst of Impeachment days, and they will remain at the side of the Clintons, whatever the MSM and their sympathizers in the blogosphere, hurl at them, by spin or by subterfuge.

Hillary Clinton will make a truly extraordinary first woman President of the United States.

The MSM and their long-Clinton  hating talking heads from Russert to Williams to Matthews are praying that unrepresentative Iowa has significance.

The reality is, of course, that it will either have the prescience to also nominate Senator Clinton, or be quickly relegated to permanent irrelevance.

An Iowa win for this year's unqualified media honey, Barack Obama, won't deter Senator Clinton.  It will simply become a permanent embarrassment for Iowa.

Regarding the polls above:

I think they POLLED  IDIOTS !