On the night of the New Hampshire primaries, I was attending the 2007 Distinguished Service Award Dinner of the Nixon Center at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. At the dinner, I heard (and recorded) a highly unusual, yet revealing roast of Henry Kissinger by billionaire Peter Peterson — who was himself the night’s honoree….
My New America Foundation colleague and fellow blogger Mark Schmitt and I discuss the New Hampshire primary results. The following clip runs about eight minutes.
Booman Tribune’s Martin Longman compares yesterday’s New Hampshire primary results, including the turnout levels, to the 2004 race. But in his kicker he writes: Clinton won because of higher female turnout and higher registered Democrat turnout. Independents voted for Obama at a 41%-31% clip.
Benjamin Eckstein, President of the betting site America’s Line, said: “If a woman came in with two years of experience as Obama has had in the Senate, she’d really be laughed out of the campaign. But yet Obama with two years of experience is right there. And that’s why we’re still making Hillary our favorite.
A prominent national security expert zapped me a note the other day commenting positively on something I had posted on the blog, but he admonished me for taking Iowa so seriously. And he had a point.
The One Campaign — committed to generating international support to fight global poverty and disease — is slowly x’ing out the candidates. Michael Tomasky thinks Duncan Hunter is probably out next — and has written that Fred Thompson “Campaigns as though he can’t wait until he can drop out of the race.
Everyone knows the news. McCain and Hillary Clinton beat expectations — big time.
For presidential race junkies, I’ll be doing a couple of bits of media commentary tonight for different networks on the primary results in New Hampshire. But one of the best line-ups of commentators I’ve seen will be hosted by Brave New Films and “The Young Turks.
I have received a few dozen emails asking my thoughts on the Sibel Edmonds case. My response won’t please many of the readers advocating on her behalf or asking if there are ways in which I can help her get more mainstream press attention.
It has been a quite few days here in Iowa. No more phone calls from my new friends John and Joe and Hillary and Barack. No more invitations to dinners, rallies, concerts. No more bright and glossy objects in my mailbox. And, after a final frenzied night. . .silence. I feel so. . .used.
