Posted on 01/08/2008 8:24:24 PM PST by kristinn
Hours before the voting started in New Hampshire today, the Hillary Clinton campaign was on the verge of implosion. At least that's what the Clinton campaign wanted us to believe.
The polls showed Barack Obama heading for a knockout blow against the inevitable Democratic presidential nominee. Hillary got teary eyed and her voice choked in a rare public display of emotion. Word was leaked that her campaign staff was going to be shaken up, that her campaign funding was in trouble and that pressure was mounting for her to drop from the race.
Tonight Hillary "stunned" the political world with a victory that seemed improbable this morning when the latest polls showed her down 13%.
We've been down this road before with the Clintons. They are masters of deception, feeding the media garbage that they breathlessly regurgitate and then marvel at how the Clintons beat the low expectations they set for themselves.
When then President Bill Clinton testified before a federal grand jury in the Monica Lewinsky case, the Clinton camp spread a tale of Bill Clinton flying into a 'purple rage' during his testimony.
Later, when videotape of his testimony revealed that he actually kept his cool, the media ignored the lies it had been fed and celebrated Clinton's coolness under fire.
The Clintons did it again tonight. Hillary's tears were as real as Bill's purple rage. All the while the media went with the story the Clintons wanted told about her diminished prospects in New Hampshire, their political machine was getting ready to put the shiv in Obama.
There was no way the Clintons were going to let Obama win. There will be stories of ballot shortages and other shenanigans, but that's all they'll be--stories told by embittered losers.
Welcome to the big leagues, Obama and the nut roots. As Johnny Rotten so famously asked, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Vote fraud or not... we witnessed again the persistence of evil incarnate in the form of “the Hillary”’ “But, she’s just a normal person,... like you or I?” Don’t you believe it!
History will remember Bush favorably. Regan made mistakes, Bush made mistakes, but they were the right men at the right time. Hillary might be a man, but it will never be the right time.
Obama sounded gracious in his concession, I must say. On to the next round.
We endured 8 loooooong years of “As the World Turns.” Is there anybody in their right mind who wants to watch reruns?
Are there any Dims who are in their right mind?
I didn’t think so.
C’mon Pubbies, record turnout - neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor whatever. Remember, come November, prevent the scum from poisoning the earth further.
No, you’re forgetting the Democrat mindset - say one thing but do another. How many times have we heard Democrats condemn Republicans and conservatives of being racist while they live in black-free neighborhoods?
They wanted to do the “cool” thing and vote for Obama, the first serious black candidate for the US presidency but when the polls and pundits started claiming he’s going to win if he wins New Hampshire; I’m sure many panicked and voted for Hillary. They would’ve preferred other states “do the dirty work” by preventing Obama from getting the nomination while they were “enlightened” and voted for him; but the polls and pundits changed all that. Better to nip it in the bud now so to speak.
A further case in point is the behavior of the independents. They were supposed to break towards Obama but suddenly went for McCain. Why? What happened?
Over a dozen polls ALL had Obama ahead of Clinton - in some cases by more than a dozen points. How else does one explain why so many told pollsters they’ll vote for Obama, but actually voted for Clinton or McCain?
Racisme? Who knows. Mighty suspicious though.
Remember Bubba’s fake tears at Ron Brown’s funeral? He taught Hillary well.
Ah yes, the polls. The polls are no longer valid. Do not believe the polls! They are manipulated and/or fabricated.
I have always believed that the Hillary-Obama contest is a sham, and that their plan all along has been a Clinton/Obama ticket wherein Obama serves first as her Vice-President, then succeeding to the Presidency after she has “her turn”. And, should that plan not work-out, Hillary has Evan Bayh as a backup.
I agree. She and Slick Willie did what it took to win. By any means.
I will have to admit I thought Hillary was finished. Many here believed otherwise.
I should have known better.
SOMETHING was amiss in this.
The errors in exit polling is NOT the same as all the pollsters in pre-voting polling saying the opposite.
The Dewey Truman picture was about polling stopped about 5 days early in that race. Polling did NOT stop 5 days early.
Measurements were taken last night. There was no sign of this Clinton surge.
The exit polls in 2004 were only off about 3%. This error is 15+%.
The short version of all this? No way.
“Defying expectations of a humiliating double-digit rout,” Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama in a neck-and-neck race Tuesday night in New Hampshire, according to projections by the Associated Press and NBC.
MANCHESTER, N.H. Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire viewed Senator Barack Obama as more likely than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to beat the Republican nominee in 2008, according to exit polls conducted Tuesday, a reversal of the previous trends in national polls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/us/politics/09poll.html
LBJ couldn’t have done better when it comes to stealing votes. I’m sure all those Dem precincts running out of ballots had nothing to do with the outcome. LOL
The Clintons or whoever they front for are trying to pick the Republican candidate too.
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On nights like this I realize the futility of the political process in this totally dark, corrupt world. Back to my eyes on the prize.
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Remember the stories the last two days about how many New Yorkers and Massachussetts folks were at her rallies? And today about how many same-day registrations there were? Even when I take my tinfoil hat off, there are some strange and ugly vibes coming from this race.
“I dont understand. Were all the pollsters in on this deception, too? Or were they proven to be incredibly stupid once again?”
The democrats polled lied because many of them are racists. They say they support the black guy and give themselves the warm fuzzies. Once they get in the voting booth, they get to vote their true feelings. Hence, you get results like tonight.
Remember, they ran out of ballots in precincts all over NH. Some kind of foul play was taking place. I can't believe that that all of the pollsters were in on some kind of "scam".
On the eve of the Iowa Caucus the same pollsters projected that Obama was going to win. And they were right. On the eve of the NH primary, all the polls projected an Obama victory.
Something's amiss here...
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA
- FBI files misappropriated by the White House: c. 900
- Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by the White House: 18,000
- Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both McDougals, Lindsey): 5
- Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton’s own lawyer in preparation for the president’s defense: 40
- Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit: 45
- Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000
- Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been physically threatened (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Juantia Broaddrick): 6
- Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten up or claimed to have been intimidated: 10
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