Hillary Got Bern’d In Iowa - DailyBeast

[WillyT]

Hillary Got Bern’d in Iowa
Clinton claims she won a virtual tie against the socialist insurgent Bernie Sanders. It’s still a loss for the former Ms. Inevitable.
Olivia Nuzzi, Betsy Woodruff, & Jackie Kucinich - DailyBeast
02.01.16 11:46 PM ET

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DES MOINES – Hillary Clinton was so focused on winning Iowa Monday night that she didn’t seem to notice that she hadn’t really won.

Onstage at Drake University, she declared she was “breathing a big sigh of relief.”

But it wasn’t clear why.

As she exited the podium, waving and shaking hands with supporters, her fate was still uncertain. But it was already obvious that it wasn’t a victory. Not in the literal sense, because as of press time she was still neck and neck with her rival Bernie Sanders, at 49.8 to 49.6 percent. This race was never supposed to be close at all. She was supposed to sail to a win this time. The socialist Senator was supposed to be a blip. He’d won the expectations game.

“I am excited about really getting into the debate with Sen. Sanders about this best way forward to fight for America,” she said, unconvincingly.

While her supporters put on a brave face and enthusiastically talked up her progressive bona fides, Monday night was an unequivocal failure for Clinton. Now she will ride the wave of that failure into New Hampshire, a state where she trails Sanders by 18 points.

She didn’t fail to win Iowa for lack of trying. In the final weeks before the caucuses, she threw everything she could at Sanders—his varying positions on guns, his criticisms of President Obama (who won Iowa in 2008), and his desire to change Obama’s signature healthcare bill.

She pleaded with Iowa to choose her experience—domestic and international—over his imagination. But his imagination prevailed, as Obama’s did 2008.

Meanwhile, a few miles away from Hillary’s fantasy victory party, Sanders was refusing to let her get away with controlling the narrative.

“Tonight, while the results are still not known, it looks like we are in a virtual tie,” he said. Hundreds of his supporters, packed into a ballroom at the airport Holiday Inn, cheered—for a full 42 seconds.

Sanders’s spokeswoman, Symone Sanders, said she didn’t understand why Hillary seemed to be calling the race for herself. “They’ve been up to tactics all weekend,” she said. “I don’t know what they’re up to now.”

Just outside the party, there was...

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[AzDar]

1. K & R

[Lorien]

2. Kick for the only candidate who supports the people

over powerful corporate interests!

[Matariki]

3. "While her supporters put on a brave face"

That's an understatement. Some of her supporters here are acting like they just won the recent Powerball jackpot.

[LibDemAlways]

10. and the Superbowl, World Series, Stanley Cup, and Triple Crown

all in a single night blindedfolded and with one hand tied behind her back.

[jham123]

4. Someone....

....is brave enough to call it what it is.....

Feel the Bern, Hillary was supposed to dominate

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. They consider .0001% a "domination"....

From a tie to a thumping in New Hampshire is bad optics.

The next one is a primary so it's going to be harder to cheat.

[sabrina 1]

5. Yes, she did bet Berned last night! And we're only starting.

[SoapBox]

6. We started with kindling...

And now we're growing into a bonfire...that cannot be put out.

[one_voice]

8. Wow, y'all sound like you're on some sort..

of old fashioned witch hunt. Always talking 'bout burning people. Kinda odd actually..

[Ned_Devine]

16. You forgot the sarcasm thingy

I know I don't have to explain that his name is Bernie and we use the old exercise line of "feeling the Bern" when people come decide to support the senator from Vermont. Oh wait, I guess I did have to explain that.

[frylock]

17. New manufactured outrage and talking point!

How refreshing.

[one_voice]

20. Oh. I spoke outloud..

how dare me. I'll go back and sit down with adoring eyes.

[roguevalley]

21. no. just don't be such an ingenue

[one_voice]

22. sure. How many more to come. It's usually at..

least 7 to put pile on when someone speaks out of turn.

Note: I didn't not say a word against Sanders. I criticized something said by **someone** here. And here y'all come. Kinda like everyone says.

Maybe y'all should take a cue from Bernie and stop taking shit so personal. It really wasn't that serious it was a mild observation. Doesn't require 5, 6, 7, 8 nuns scolding.

But please proceed to run the gamut.

Enjoy your day.

[frylock]

23. You made up some bullshit and were called out on it.

[one_voice]

24. I did no such thing sir, I gave my opinion..

on a comment I saw. you may not like it my opinion, but it's still an opinion nonetheless.

Have a good one.

[George II]

7. I'm sure she'd willing to get "Bern'd" in more states as long as she winds up with.....

.....more delegates than her opponent.

[antigop]

9. Andrea Mitchell: Clinton Camp was in a "meltdown"

[INdemo]

11. Yes and her supproters ..yes even here were all claiming she won !! Yeah !!

knowing that Hillary hadn't won at all.
What this article failed to mention is How much money did Hillary Clinton spend on this walk-away-victory for her that was a dead even tie? And how much her PACs spent along with her billionaire friends like the Ricketts...

[Plucketeer]

14. Not to mention

the conspiratorial efforts of that damned LIBERAL MEDIA that blessed her with virtually NO mention of Sanders until it was overly obvious he was gonna be a contender. There's NO dollar figure to the worth of such determined oversight!

[INdemo]

15. We are going to have this all the way through

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and I certainly agree with you.Lets see what happens right up till the NH primary..Bernie is going to be hit with everything they've got............and this is great because its gonna prove to the voters that "Hey this Bernie guy he can handle the heat and he will do well against any Republican" and walla Bernie will gain even more support...Thank You Hillary she will become the best fundraiser for Bernie....

[madokie]

19. It appears she has become the best fund raiser for Bernie

I know she doesn't want to hear that but say it I must

[TIME TO PANIC]

12. K & R !

[DanTex]

18. We knew that the press was dying to write "it's 2008 all over again", but it's funny to watch them

still print these silly articles after that didn't actually happen. I wonder if they simply decided to publish the stuff they had written before Iowa actually happened, adding a sentence or two here and there to try and adapt the narrative to reality.