More from Turkana.
Everyone is at least mentioning the gender gap. There's also been much discussion about a backlash against the media, in general, and the Chris Matthews style of bloviating, in particular (which Pam Spaulding has brilliantly identified it as the Tweety Effect- h/t digby). And then there's the blogosphere. When both Markos and Meteor Blades, neither of whom supports Hillary, angrily decry the misogyny and hatred leveled at her, you know things have been way out of hand. Not everyone watches pundit television, and not everyone reads the blogs, but they both reflect and add to an atmosphere that grows palpable even to those not so politically obsessed. But none of that would have mattered if not for one clear fact: Hillary won by being Hillary.
People like Hillary. They don't like the cautious, calculating politician, they like the genuine human being. Separate her wonkishness from her humanity, and it's hard for people to connect with her. Let Hillary be Hillary, and people react not only with their heads but with their hearts. The backlash came because people got sick of watching a good person continually being beaten upon. You watch this clip from her victory speech, and the emotion is powerful, and it works both ways. [Clip from below.]
She means it. And it's long overdue.
As Arianna Huffington put it:
But none of endemic New Hampshire Clinton advantages would have delivered victory were it not for Hillary -- either through desperation or exhaustion -- finally letting down her guard and showing her human side. Or as she put it, "I found my own voice." She got angry in the debate; she got emotional on the stump. Indeed, her victory in New Hampshire was a resounding repudiation of the Mark Penn plan to keep her in a bubble, allow no questions in the last few days of Iowa, and act as if her nomination were inevitable. . . .
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