http://action.credomobile.com/commentary/2007/12/hillarys_still_in_this_race.htmlDecember 19, 2007 2:48 PM
Hillary's Still In This Race
Joe Conason
Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom of Washington proclaimed that Hillary Rodham Clinton could not be stopped from winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Today, the same wise men and women hint that she has forfeited the prize.
But she has never been unstoppable--and she has certainly not yet been stopped.
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Yet it is also true that the events of recent days have exposed weaknesses in the Clinton campaign. There may be no sense of panic in her headquarters, and there is almost certainly no nefarious strategy of demonizing Mr. Obama, her leading rival, but the clumsiness of her surrogates and staffers has made her campaign look panicky and scheming at once. At the very least, their blunders have provided ample ammunition for cheap shots.
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Surprisingly, the disputes that have lately monopolized so much news coverage and commentary have not dented her national appeal significantly. Indeed, although Mrs. Clinton faces difficulties in Iowa and New Hampshire, the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that she has started to recover the commanding lead that began to diminish in late November, after her poor debate performance.
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Consistent with those numbers are other polls indicating that Mrs. Clinton's troubles in Iowa and New Hampshire have not surfaced so far in the big states, whose primaries will determine the ultimate winner. She has been slowed but not stopped.