Webloggin » Press Fawns Over Clinton and McCain, Bill Clinton “Emotional”

CBS news is calling Hillary Clinton “Mrs. Comeback Kid“, Yahoo news is calling both Hillary and John McCain “Comeback Kids”, access Hollywood opened the doors to present Hillary as just one of the girls and Bill Clinton is “emotional”.

It is being reported that Hillary’s near tears stunt may actually have helped get out the woman vote and catapult her over the top last night. Trying to capitalize on that obvious vote getter the Clinton’s are pulling all the stops and the mainstream media is more than happy to oblige. Next to today’s top headlines on ABC new is a picture of a teary eyed Bill Clinton supposedly overwrought by the harrowing win Mrs. Comeback kid pulled off last night. Hillary Clinton appeared on Access Hollywood to talk about important issues for America; namely her concern about her weight and various other insecurities that somehow make her qualified to be President of the United States. Gag me.

The bad thing is that these shticks appear to be working, otherwise you wouldn’t wake up to the staged picture of a teary eyed Bill Clinton on ABC’s website.

I have a question, if Hillary Clinton defied conventional wisdom and took an unexpected win in New Hampshire why should I believe anything that people with “conventional wisdom” are telling me?

Likewise, how does John McCain become a comeback candidate in New Hampshire when most polls showed him ahead before the primary date arrived? Uh excuse me, comeback kids usually do something unexpected.

The answer is simple, everything is too close to call, the stakes are high and well paid pundits all have an individual stake in this race; a true muddle buried in a glut of real analysis and a plethora of mis-information.

At least one person in the media is asking how could the polls on the Democratic side could have been so wrong. That is a good question and deserves and answer considering that polls have a possibility of skewing results.

There will be a serious, critical look at the final pre-election polls in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire; that is essential. It is simply unprecedented for so many polls to have been so wrong. We need to know why.

But we need to know it through careful, empirically based analysis. There will be a lot of claims about what happened – about respondents who reputedly lied, about alleged difficulties polling in biracial contests. That may be so. It also may be a smokescreen – a convenient foil for pollsters who’d rather fault their respondents than own up to other possibilities – such as their own failings in sampling and likely voter modeling.

There have been previous races that misstated support for black candidates in biracial races. But most of those were long ago, and there have been plenty of polls in biracial races that were accurate.

This years race is turning out to be one of the most exciting political races in memory. Politics has taken on excitement usually reserved for sports. In fact last night’s recap of the of the Mac, Jurko & Harry Show on ESPN radio 1000 in Chicago included a segment where show producer Ben Finfer referred to this race as the NFC (Republicans) vs the inevitable AFC (Democrats). Finfer even went as far as comparing Barack Obama to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton to Peyton Manning. Sorry Ben, Obama lost last night, I’m not so sure that Brady and the Pat’s will get defeated this year, but then again one can hope. My fear is that John McCain most closely resembles Rex Grossman complete with the supporters that have this unfounded faith that he will get the big win only to be let down when he gets intercepted AGAIN.

If you aren’t paying attention to politics this year I can only imagine that you live in a cave. It’s time to get involved.

Update: I missed this from Maureen Dowd at the New York Times about the latest Clinton tactic, which btw is not so new. (h/t – Sister Toldjah)

She won her Senate seat after being embarrassed by a man. She pulled out New Hampshire and saved her presidential campaign after being embarrassed by another man. She was seen as so controlling when she ran for the Senate that she had to be seen as losing control, as she did during the Monica scandal, before she seemed soft enough to attract many New York voters.

Getting brushed back by Barack Obama in Iowa, her emotional moment here in a cafe and her chagrin at a debate question suggesting she was not likable served the same purpose, making her more appealing, especially to women, particularly to women over 45.

The Obama campaign calculated that they had the women’s vote over the weekend but watched it slip away in the track of her tears.

[~snip]

Her argument against Obama now boils down to an argument against idealism, which is probably the lowest and most unlikely point to which any Clinton could sink. The people from Hope are arguing against hope.

At her victory party, Hillary was like the heroine of a Lifetime movie, a woman in peril who manages to triumph. Saying that her heart was full, she sounded the feminist anthem: “I found my own voice.” – (Src. NY Times, Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?

Seems even the left is onto this game. I wonder why New Hampshire didn’t get it?