2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wow, Bill Clinton is really starting to look old! Like elderly old... [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)in this video. Both Hillary and Bill are both "off."
Bill looks completely gobsmacked. Traumatized. I don't think I've ever seen him look like that. I think his disposition has more to do with what happened prior to them taking the stage--as opposed to age issues.
Hillary, on the other hand, looks like she wants to kill someone. She looks completely steeled--like there are tons of other emotions underneath that she is covering. So many people have remarked that this speech was disturbing. If you look at her current speeches, she doesn't look or behave like she did during this Iowa speech.
I'm convinced that major stuff went down behind closed doors that night in Iowa.
Possibly, it's that they saw their early lead slowly erode away to a .2, razor-thin victory. I'm sure that was disappointing. However, I really wonder if some hanky pinky didn't occur. We all know that Iowa's political apparatus is in the tank for Clinton. It's possible that they rigged it for her. The returns were coming in steadily and slowly--with the gap narrowing between the two candidates. Then, it stopped at the end. Just stopped. Then, the numbers began climbing for Clinton. It was odd. It's possible that this was a real .2 win. However, it just looks and feels funny. Especially when Andy "license plate" McGuire refused to allow any examination of the final results. She only capitulated after the Des Moines Register issued a scathing editorial, demanding that known errors be corrected.
5 errors were corrected. I have no idea if the Iowa Democratic Party is working to fix more. Nothing like this has ever happened in Iowa. It's a heartbreaker for sure.