Good read.... excerpt:
As of yesterday, it is Clinton who has the momentum. Her own team is working hard to understand how she pulled off victory in New Hampshire, so that they might repeat the trick nationwide. The key seems to be women, who made up 57% of the Democratic electorate on Tuesday and, having favoured Obama in Iowa, chose her in New Hampshire. What drew them in, the Clinton camp believes, is a dramatic sequence of events in the preceding 24 hours - events that stirred up the state's women, especially older ones.
Most famously, Hillary choked up when asked how she coped with the pressure. The footage was repeated in a virtual loop on American TV and seems to have done Hillary a favour, revealing a vulnerable side that had been hidden for 16 years. But also important was the criticism of those tears by the rival candidate John Edwards, saying America needed toughness in its commander-in-chief. Alongside it was a heckling incident during a Clinton event, when a couple of men held up placards bearing the once-common anti-feminist slogan "Iron my shirt" (some bloggers wonder if the hecklers weren't in fact pro-Hillary plants). Add to that a male-dominated punditocracy, on TV round the clock, gleefully writing off Hillary's chances, and you have the ingredients of a women's revolt. "They just hit a complete breaking point," one Hillary adviser told me yesterday. "They were outraged."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2238148,00.html
As of yesterday, it is Clinton who has the momentum. Her own team is working hard to understand how she pulled off victory in New Hampshire, so that they might repeat the trick nationwide. The key seems to be women, who made up 57% of the Democratic electorate on Tuesday and, having favoured Obama in Iowa, chose her in New Hampshire. What drew them in, the Clinton camp believes, is a dramatic sequence of events in the preceding 24 hours - events that stirred up the state's women, especially older ones.
Most famously, Hillary choked up when asked how she coped with the pressure. The footage was repeated in a virtual loop on American TV and seems to have done Hillary a favour, revealing a vulnerable side that had been hidden for 16 years. But also important was the criticism of those tears by the rival candidate John Edwards, saying America needed toughness in its commander-in-chief. Alongside it was a heckling incident during a Clinton event, when a couple of men held up placards bearing the once-common anti-feminist slogan "Iron my shirt" (some bloggers wonder if the hecklers weren't in fact pro-Hillary plants). Add to that a male-dominated punditocracy, on TV round the clock, gleefully writing off Hillary's chances, and you have the ingredients of a women's revolt. "They just hit a complete breaking point," one Hillary adviser told me yesterday. "They were outraged."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2238148,00.html
Be cool, now. 
