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Hillary Opens Up To Yepsen About Her Difficulties In Iowa
Hillary gets surprisingly specific about her difficulties in Iowa in an interview with influential Iowa columnist David Yepsen, saying that she has "no preexisting relationships" with the state. She notes that Edwards and Obama have devoted a great deal of time to Iowa, and also offers this debatable assessment of Obama and Edwards' candidacies: "They haven't broken through on the national level."
And as Ben Smith notes, Hillary also offers what sounds like some criticism of the state of Mississippi. The whole Yepsen interview's worth a read.
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Also, Clinton ties all Republicans in the Southern state of North Carolina in a new poll today.
October 23, 2007 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is having a hard time in IA because they are seeing the true candidate and they realize she cannot be trusted.
When the rest of the nation gets to see her up close and look at her record those polls will drop like a rock, as well. Not to mention how dismissive she was of that Iowan who asked her 'how can we trust you'. She never even bother to answer his question, she just paraded like a queen who need not deign to answer a lowly subject that was not a peer of her realm.
It has nothing to do with her not having long established relationships. I really dislike her whinning like a distressed female when she has been on the national scene for 16 years. Hillary claims that she knows how to fight the GOP and that she can take them on and win. Well, where is that vaunted machine she brags about that will ensure her win? She gets no sympathy for failing to organize her campaign in IA. She can't out fundraise a rookie who built his organization from the ground up in less than six months while she has Bill Clinton pulling in endorsements and donors. The truth is folks simply do not trust Hillary and the more people get to see and hear her the less they like her.
What a crock about Obama visiting the state...yes, he visted to campaign for Harkin is what he did. While you Hillary had a First Lady platform and visited 82 countries, yet you couldn't didn't visit IA? Please. Stop the kvetching. You knew you were running for President back in 2002 when you cast that vote to send all those Iowan boys to war. Have you looked at how high the casualties are for IA, Hillary? Folks don't want more war and that Kyl-Lieberman vote was the last straw. Iowans were gonna try to give you the benefit of the doubt but that last vote was the frosting on the cake. The picture came through crystal clear to Iowans Hillary is a warmongerer who has no intention of leading this nation with dipolmacy. Iowans understand Hillary is a fighter and not to be trusted. Iowans know the nation needs a leader, not a brawler. A leader they can trust and who stands on priniciple. Not Hillary.
Hillary needs to stop whinning...go get Bill...so the Iowans can really be reminded of why they do not want the two of you in the White as CO-presidents.
Iowans know disingenous and insincerity when they see it up close.
Iowans like the rest of the nation want peace and to restore America's reputation around the world we do not want endless war.
Folks don't trust Hillary and they don't know where she stands.
We will watch Hillary begin her descent and the polls and pundits will stop with the incessant 'frontrunner'...Hillary has peaked.
Hillary forgot that you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time. Iowans see right through you this time Hillary.
Mississippi will not be voting for you Hillary, you are not even a homegirl, worst of all you wear pantsuits. Every Southerner knows FEMALES wear dresses. Harriet Mier wore dresses, so does Elizabeth Dole. Southern girls understand that.
Your pantsuits won't walk in the South. In addition to being unfeminine, when you are pandering for the female vote all the time, they simply aren't flattering on you...and those loud colors just are too LOUD...females are gentile and flowers of womenhood in the South.
Men are the fighters in the South, women are steel magnolias...a concept that you never grasped not even as First Lady.
October 23, 2007 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Way to lower expecations in Iowa, Hill. Guess Penn's internals aren't as rosy as the public caucus guesstimates.
The day Hillary Clinton carries North Carolina will be the day the global warming problem is solved forever by the heretofore eternal fires of Hell turning into glaciers.
October 23, 2007 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
No pre-existing relationships, eh? Guess Vilsack can now go home and attempt to scrub the tire marks off his clothing.
October 23, 2007 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think criticizing Iowans as sexist for failing to elect women to certain positions in Iowa is a good way to go about your Iowa campaigning.
Have qualified women mounted serious candidacies in Iowa and lost b/c they are women? It just seems so unlikely that the reasons for this in Iowa are anything like the reasons in Mississippi. Why would Iowa be so different from any of its neighboring states?
I guess it could be reverse psychology aimed at getting Dem voters fired up about voting for a woman, but it seems like an odd move to me.
October 23, 2007 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed, Bob. I suppose one could fire up Dem females in Iowa to get out and vote in this strange way. I am inclined to believe that data is telling Hillary that she won't win Iowa and she's getting her explanation ready--Iowa is backwards like Mississippi and the Clintons never had an Iowa organization (I suppose that makes Vilsack unimportant to her effort).
Since I cannot find her all-consuming support here in my ward, I am simply not surprised that she's already preparing the ground for a loss in Iowa.
October 23, 2007 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, by the way, "Hillary Opens Up?" Oh. Puh. Leeze. It was unusual because she made direct statements instead of the usual platitudinous mush, but it was a carefully crafted statement that they probably see as a no-lose scenario. Maybe it pisses people off, maybe it motivates them, maybe it does both and is self-cancelling. The point is that now, if she loses Iowa, her spin people can sell it on caucus night as rank sexism. If she ties in Iowa, she now gets to call it a win because her expecations were low. If she wins Iowa, its a double big superduper win that proves her inevitability and shows how appealing she is to the people who hate her.
October 23, 2007 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush-Lite and her Hamilton project allies are corrupt!
October 23, 2007 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary "opens up"??? Hardly. Here's a quote from a Newsweek article that's far more interesting than the Yepsen article, and not one that Greg Sargent is likely to provide you with a link to.
To read more about Hillary doing everything except opening up:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/57351
October 23, 2007 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with Bob about the dubious motivational value of comparing Iowa to Mississippi. It may be hard to remember details from the coast (Iowa, Idaho, what's the diff), but this part of fly-over country defines itself as Not The South (also Not Nebraska, but that's another story). NCSteve and stlounick's assessment of this as stategery sounds about right.
October 23, 2007 12:38 PM | Reply | Permalink