Or perhaps there was something like the "Bradley Effect" going on in New Hampshire. White voters may not admit publicly to pollsters and caucus goers that they are prejudiced, but act on it behind the election curtain.
AlterNet
In her victory speech last night, Hillary Clinton probably nailed the underlying reason for her remarkable comeback in New Hampshire. In the last three days, Clinton had changed her pattern, spending far more time taking questions and comments and less time delivering the same old stump speech. "I listened to you," she told the voters of New Hampshire, "and in the process, I found my own voice."
"Too many have been invisible for too long; you're not invisible to me. . . . There will be no more invisible Americans. . . . Now let's give the country the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."
On MSNBC last night, Katrina vanden Heuvel made the point that these candidates are learning from each other. Obama's speech borrowed populist themes from Edwards, she noted, adding that Clinton probably turned her campaign around when she said she rediscovered the progressive causes and reasons why she was running.
When Clinton castigated the oil companies, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the predatory loan companies, she was echoing Edward's speeches. "For seven years they've had a President who stood up for them. Now it's time you had someone stand up for you."
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