Don't Cancel Hillary's Ticket, Yet

With pending losses in New Hampshire and most likely South Carolina, possibly Michigan, too - many of the usual suspects are beginning to write Hillary off. The Press will eat it up and there will be endless stories about the end of the Clinton Era, etc. Don't buy it, anymore than you buy anything else from the media once it starts to hive.

They like themes and narratives more than facts today and the next best story-line is always the one they look for. Just as certain as they are burying Hillary today, weeks from now, they'll be all too happy to grab her up as the Little Train that possibly could hang on and derail the Obama Express. That's how they work. And those major press memes are going to mean more in the coming weeks than they do today. Read this from the New York Times.

After New Hampshire, a Rapidly Changing Race

MANCHESTER, N.H. — This week New Hampshire becomes the gateway to a new political world, one that will engage multiple constituencies, play out over a vastly larger terrain and shift the psychology of the competition.

We have a long way to go, politically speaking, before February 5th. And there's more change coming than the vague change Obama is currently selling on the stump. And while the Clinton, Inc. train can be de-railed, it's also something of a freight train, with plenty of resources and options. It can switch tracks, or cannonball an unwary victim who gets caught standing in its way.

Hillary may not be on schedule but rest assured she is still running. And only the naive should buy the notion that Hillary's caboose and infamous pantsuit has reached the end of the line.

Comments

[jp]

Hillary CAN'T lose Michigan. She is the only Democrat on the ballot.

[john]

She'll claim she's the comeback kid once she wins Michigan since she's the only Democrat there on the ballot. lol.

I hope Democrats get angry that Barack won't be on the ticket in Michigan and write his name on the ballot and cross off Hillary's name.