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...rally at the Baruch College gymnasium in lower Manhattan to hear a victory story, not a valediction. They loved her as she strode in to the strains of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and loved her as she departed to Tina Turner's "Simply the Best." Her speech was a roller-coaster ride and they hung on every minute...
...quite a speech. Obama's narrow but apparently decisive lead at the end of the primary season is merely a figment of the "pundits and naysayers," Sen. Clinton told a rally in her adoptive home of New York City. Jeers reverberated. In truth, she assured them, she won. "Nearly 18 million of you cast your votes for our campaign, carrying the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history," Clinton declared. The swing states that will determine the general election belong to her. It's a debatable point-but not, ultimately, germane, because the nomination is about...
...point in her speech, Clinton recalled all the times she has been written off in this campaign only to pull herself back into it. The first time was in New Hampshire. She spoke there of "finding my voice...
...finished in second place. Numbers can say that. Party leaders can say that. Rules and delegates and pundits can say that. But after her speech-the concession that wasn't-it was Obama's voice on her voicemail at 11:06 p.m. Eastern time, congratulating her, not the other way around, and asking her to call him back...
...that the truth." That has been Hillary Clinton's story this year: she has learned how to be at ease with people like Margaret Dinock, and has come to believe that she - and only she - can adequately represent them in the White House. She mentions them in every speech. Actually, it's more than that: they are the throbbing heart of every speech for a candidate who, in the beginning, rarely showed any heart...