A new voice for Hillary

So what happened? The New York Times thinks it knows:

Several New Hampshire women, some of them undecided until Tuesday, said in interviews that a galvanizing moment in the race had been Mrs. Clinton’s unusual display of emotion on Monday when her eyes filled with tears and her voice cracked as she described the pressures of the race and her goals for the nation.’ As voters began to see the choice they have and heard Hillary speak from her heart, they came back to her,’ said Mark Penn, Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist.

Well, if this is really true then the Dianafication of America that I wrote about below really has started to rot the US brain big-time. But maybe other factors were also at work in New Hampshire. Maybe the post-Iowa feeding frenzy over Obama made the NH voters look much harder at him and realise he was a dubious flake. Maybe the fact that Iowa voted through a non-secret ballot made a difference. Maybe the Clinton machine simply managed to mobilise its core vote. Many theories will now doubtless fill many pages. Who knows. The only thing we can be sure of is that anyone who predicts the outcome of this presidential race, including the pollsters, can safely be ignored.