This is why Fred Thompson last night said if forced to place a bet he would take Hillary. The machine is strong. Win or lose this gets her to the big Feb 6th multi state run off.
All this talk shows what is getting horribly wrong with the process, a difference of 5-10k votes in small states like NH and Iowa totally set perceptions and the media, unable to think on their own keep changing sides. At the end of the day today, a difference of 8000 Democratic votes has totally changed the overall landscape of the Democratic race, That is scary.
Unfortunately, it’s mostly just the effect of the increasing percentage of the total count coming in. She’s held the 3.5 figure for over an hour, with the exception of a period of about ten minutes when Obama closed to around two thousand. There was then a sudden increase of almost two thousand votes in her total. So, anyway, 3500’s about where it’s been for quite a while.
“Whoa - FoxNews now showing Hillary only up by 2% now (3,500 votes). Yet Juan Williams is telling us that if Hillary wins this SHE is the front runner. Huh? I shudder to think if she pulls this out she may get that huge Union vote in Nevada.”
She never stopped being the front-runner. Despite what the media were harping on, her lead in the national polls remained. She lost Iowa, and might (and may) have lost New Hampshire, but that doesn’t change the fact that those are only a handful of delegates and many much bigger states remain.