“I think historically young people have not voted in the Iowa caucus because they are from other states,” Bill Clinton tells MTV News. “This time we had a lot of students who did come back and I think, frankly, thousands and thousands of them came back from Illinois to support Senator Obama….”
The former president has quickly figured out that the Barack Obama campaign successfully used out-of-state youth to blanket the state in strategic locations to caucus in Iowa and support Obama, which gave the illusion of a groundswell of support. However, as we’ve previously noted, most of the young people Obama recruited to caucus in Iowa would not have been eligible to vote in a general election.
Since the illusion came to fore, however, psychological politics have taken over. The media and many blogs have made it seem that Obama’s win in Iowa was the result of a greater Democratic mood change in America — against Hillary. And, in turn, the coverage, according to the latest polls from New Hampshire at least, is causing more primary voters in that state to want to support a winner. And Obama, based on his manipulative Iowa performance, has been crowned that prince by many in the press, especially, for instance, Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
“[W]e haven’t made that mistake here; we’ve reached out to young people here and I think we just have to keep trying,” Clinton said of the situation regarding Hillary in New Hampshire.
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