January 4
So now the voters of Iowa have spoken, and Hillary Clinton was not first, not second, but third. And the spinners in her camp are working overtime. Clinton chief strategist Mark Penn said "This had nothing to do with issues. When it comes to issues, we're seen as President."
Hmmm...seems to me the Clinton camp had to be reeling by the size of Barack Obama's win, and the record turnout. But they're too smart not to realize what's happening. That's why you saw all the blue signs around her at her postcaucus speech reading "Ready for Change."
If anyone has cornered that market, it would seem to be Obama. But the Clintonites are bright enough to now realize that Iowans (and I would suspect many others) are sick of the status quo...so they'll change tack and head in that direction, or try to. And watch for the Clinton campaign to go negative...as negative as they dare...on Obama. They know if they don't take him down a notch or two quickly, his snowball may turn into an avalanche.