First the big Democratic Party dinner in Wisconsin goes badly for her...
After days of battling each other in tit-for-tat television advertisements ahead of the Wisconsin primary, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on Saturday night cooled their rhetoric and reminded Democrats of their fight ahead...
After watching the party's nominating fight from afar for more than a year, thousands of Democratic faithful assembled in a downtown convention hall to inspect their candidates in person. Mrs. Clinton received a polite reception, but when Mr. Obama arrived, the crowd erupted in thunderous applause, with people chanting his name.
...and then she gives up on the state?
Several Democrats privately expressed disgruntlement that the Wisconsin primary had not been more heavily contested, particularly by Mrs. Clinton, who was scheduled to campaign for less than 48 hours in the state...
Speaking to reporters after the campaign event, Mrs. Clinton renewed her challenge for a televised debate. "I will meet Senator Obama any place in the state," she said.But on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Clinton's aides said that she would cut short her Wisconsin trip and leave on Monday, a day earlier than planned.
"It's no reflection on our commitment to the state," said Mo Elleithee, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, adding that she had been "well represented" by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and her daughter, Chelsea, who campaigned in the state. "We just had to get her elsewhere."
First they were ignoring everything between Super Tuesday and March, but then they were forced to switch gears and send Hillary into Wisconsin. But now they are giving up? Jon Taplin to ask an interesting question: did Obama just pull off a classic rope-a-dope? Whether it was intentional or not, that's sure how it seems to have worked out.
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