Reversal Of Fortunes?
The Politico has an interesting article up today. They claim that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have essentially changed places in Iowa.
In ways big and small over the weekend, the two campaigns exuded a sense of switched identities — a dynamic driven by poll-driven perceptions that Clinton’s sense of inevitability is slipping and Obama is riding a bit of a wave amid the Midwestern seas of grain.
The mood and stump styles of the two campaigns reflect this new reality: An ebullient Obama — coatless, tieless, tireless — conveys a sense that at least he thinks he could be on his way to being the next president. Clinton, mixing her traditional caution with a new toughness, is clearly set on knocking Obama off his game.
Clinton, like all the Democratic contenders, is now devoting the bulk of her time to Iowa. Either she or former President Bill Clinton plans to be in the state nearly every day through the Jan. 3 caucuses, with a break for Christmas.
In another acknowledgment of the tight race, Clinton has abandoned any pretense of remaining above the fray and has engaged Obama nearly every day along the campaign trail.
This has been noted before, of course. Clinton does look like she is in catch-up mode at the moment. A big loss in Iowa for her could be very damaging - it would certainly obliterate any talk of her inevitability even if such a loss was not outright fatal to her campaign. But if Obama is "swaggering" as the story says, he is a fool. Reversals like this can happen at any moment.
By martian, Monday, 26 November , 2007 @ 2:02 pm
The fact that a half term Senator who hasn’t even completed a single term in his first national office, who has absolutely no experience in domestic or foriegn policy at the national level and has never even run a company, let alone a goverment (as state governors have) is running for the office of POTUS shows that he is, indeed a fool.