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09 Jan 2008 01:38 pm
The Last Minute?
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The exit poll data does not suggest that Clinton won on a last-minute wave. Yes, she narrowly won those who decided on the day - 39 - 36. But Obama won every other period in the last month. Clinton's biggest margin was among those who had made up their minds more than a month ago - by 48 - 31. This was a victory based on the old party machine, the core partisan Democrats, and the Clinton loyalists. She takes the Democrats back to a bunkered partisan posture. It would be a disaster for them up against McCain in November. Or as one reader put it:
Lets see ... A minority candidate of near-unprecedented rhetorical skill whom even the Republicans fear has a chance to reunite the country versus a party hack riding a wave of nepotism and backroom arm twisting.
Well, Sidney Blumenthal is happy.
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Excerpt: Andrew Sullivan takes issue with the notion that Hillary Clinton confounded the pre-election polls by winning over wavering voters in the last 24 hours before voting -- when coverage of the tears was so widespread. He posits:The exit poll data
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