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Article: Turning It Around; Down in polls after an Iowa loss, Hillary Clinton had no victory speech for New Hampshire. But then an unexpected thing happened: She won.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 10, 2008
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In a campaign run by conference calls, this one stood out. It was
Dec. 2, just a month before the Iowa caucuses, and Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton was furious. She did not yell, but her voice, serious
and deep, bristled with irritation over how things were going for
her in Iowa.
Iowans were not getting her message, she complained, and her
staff did not seem to grasp the depth of the problem. "Our
communications just isn't measuring up to our field and
fundraising," Clinton said, according to participants. She snapped
at aides trying to reassure her. When campaign manager Patti Solis
Doyle promised a new Iowa plan by day's end, Clinton groused that
she had been asking for one for weeks. Solis ...