Hillary wins NH; media makes omelet from egg on its face

Hillary defies expectations and pulls off what no one in the media predicted, and they still aren't gracious enough to print a picture of her that doesn't make her look she's been in the kiln too long.

The narrative is that her tearful moment on the trail helped win over women. The subtext appears to be: Trust chicks to act irrationally. No one seems to think it's a good thing that women turned out so overwhelmingly for her, despite the fact that five days earlier they were heralding the unprecedented numbers of young voters who had supported Obama. Yes, it's nice when college kids put down the bong long enough to do their civic duty, but it's not clear to me why their collective judgment is so much better than that of soccer moms (especially since the latter group is the one that's supposed to hate her so much.)

An optimistic view is that the voters of New Hampshire didn't want the debate to be over, and wanted a candidate to emerge from the campaign thoroughly vetted. A pessimistic view is that they were so sick of the media's self-righteous anointing of Obama (and the thoroughly egregious pile-on of Hillary) after Iowa that they voted for her just to be contrarian. Can't say that I blame them.