Wow has the momentum shifted dramatically or what?
This is one of the most rapid and unforeseen wilting of a front-runner I have ever seen.

Are there ANY Hillary supporters here on RIU?

For the past couple of days I have seen lots of stories reflecting Hill's fall from grace.

Here are some takes.....

This thought occurs that Hillary Clinton's entire campaign is, and always was, a Potemkin village, a giant head fake, a haughty facade hollow at the core. That she is disorganized on the ground in Iowa, taken aback by a challenge to her invincibility, that she doesn't actually have an A team, that her advisers have always been chosen more for proven loyalty than talent, that her supporters don't feel deep affection for her. That she's scrambling chaotically to catch up, with surrogates saying scuzzy things about Barack Obama and drug use, and her following up with apologies that will, as always, keep the story alive. That her guru-pollster, the almost universally disliked Mark Penn, has, according to Newsday, become the focus of charges that he has "mistakenly run Clinton as a de facto incumbent" and that the top officials on the campaign have never had a real understanding of Iowa.......


This is, still, an amazing thing to see. It is a delight of democracy that now and then assumptions are confounded, that all the conventional wisdom of the past year is compressed and about to blow. It takes a Potemkin village.
A thought on the presence of Bill Clinton. He is showing up all over in Iowa and New Hampshire, speaking, shaking hands, drawing crowds. But when he speaks, he has a tendency to speak about himself. It's all, always, me-me-me in his gigantic bullying neediness. Still, he's there, and he's a draw, and the plan was that his presence would boost his wife's fortunes. The way it was supposed to work, the logic, was this: People miss Bill. They miss the '90s. They miss the pre-9/11 world. So they'll love seeing him back in the White House. So they'll vote for Hillary. Because she'll bring him. "Two for the price of one."
It appears not to be working. Might it be that they don't miss Bill as much as everyone thought? That they don't actually want Bill back in the White House? Maybe. But maybe it's this. Maybe they'd love to have him back in the White House. Maybe they just don't want him to bring her. Maybe they miss the Cuckoo's Nest and they'd love having Jack Nicholson's McMurphy running through the halls. Maybe they just don't miss Nurse Ratched. Does she have to come? Excerpted OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

also
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horserace numbers say. The notion that she has a post-Iowa “firewall” in New Hampshire is a fantasy, and she is in danger of losing all four early contests, including Nevada and South Carolina – probably to Sen. Barack Obama, who is now, in momentum terms, the Democratic frontrunner.....
Fineman: Huckaboom and Hillabust - Decision '08 - MSNBC.com



This is why I love politics....it is totally unpredictable....

Wavels....

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Its about to get exciting. I think the aura surrounding Bill has begun to fade as the younger generation comes of voting age. They don't seem to have the same infatuation the previous generation had with the Clintons. This is definitely the last hoorah, unless they run Chelsea in '32. It is amazing how fast the whole thing is starting to fall apart. Lets see what happens with their media connections and their loyalty to the campaign. This will make or break Hillary.

Yup......
I have a feeling that Hill may already be broken beyond repair.!

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So what? Every campaign has it's dark moments, Look at your God Rudy's campaign, He's falling faster than a hard dick at a Nude geriatrics convention. I just love how all the idiots come out with predictions at this stage of the game.

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God Rudy's campaign......

med I am not a Rudy fan, and I just heard that Huckabee is now ahead of Rudy in FL


Let the games begin....yeeehawww!

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People still like bill a lot, they just dont like hillary as much. I dont understand why people seem to want this kind of stuff anyways. same thing with the bush's. Bush 1 sucked enough and we still elected his dolt of a son. why dont we just cut the crap and go to a monarchy?

the news media NEVER gets it right in Iowa, because they want choose the candidates. I do not care who the democrat candidate is, they will get my vote...I am sick of this republican shit. hell...I will even vote obama if he promises to lose oprahs fat ass...
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You listening to Rush Wavels? I just heard the Huckabee thing there.

Only Idiots listen to Limbaugh, seems they like to stick together.

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Yes cc...


I must be an idiot...I have Rush on now...hahahaha

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