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There is - as any who have followed one will attest - a thrill to a closely fought American presidential primary campaign that is quite unlike that provided by any other kind of political event. The earnest coffee mornings in Iowa homes and the packed school gyms in New Hampshire; the air wars - a relentless blitz of TV ads - in megastates such as New York and California; the retail politics as candidates tramp through slush and frozen stubble; the defining moments that summon up memories of campaigns long ago - how come it was OK for Hillary Clinton to tear...
...primary campaign - and 2008 is shaping up as one for the ages - is a remarkable exercise in popular democracy. Think of some of the stories that have already been told this year: the Evangelical community, tired of being courted and then ignored by smoother Republican candidates, turning out in Iowa to support Mike Huckabee, a man who is authentically of their stock, even if the party establishment thought him a lightweight; the thousands of college students who have seen in Barack Obama someone who speaks to their, and not their parents', concerns; the women in New Hampshire who rescued Hillary...
...showhorse, and set out to prove it. So what I have been realizing in the last days and weeks is that I have got to do some of this work myself. Lots of people with whom I have worked or been friends for a lifetime flooded into Iowa and New Hampshire to talk about me, and I am not really good about talking about me - so that was kind of a welcome addition. But I have to carry some of that responsibly myself and the people of New Hampshire really freed me up to do that...
Women came back to you in a very big way between Iowa and New Hampshire. I don't know if you can draw a trend line from one state to another but for instance, you lost single women to Obama by 13 points in Iowa, you won them by 17 points in New Hampshire, and they are a very big... Well you know, Karen, there are two things about that. Number one, I don't know how anybody tries to really make sense of what happens in caucuses. I am someone who understands and really gets what goes...
...wasn't good. She was shell-shocked, reeling from her loss in Iowa and polls that showed her cratering in New Hampshire. The search for some way to counter Obama's easy brilliance, her search for a true public voice, was proving much harder than her discovery of a new mission back in India in 1995. And then it happened, in the oddest possible way. It happened at a listless rally on Monday afternoon in the town of Dover, where her husband had resurrected his cratering campaign in 1992 by declaring, "I'll be there for you until the last...