How Hillary Clinton Survives the Iowa Disaster--
There’s no way to avoid the fact that her team handled Monday night very poorly. And although the electoral math is on her side, she needs to switch her message up quick.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/02/how-hillary-survives-the-iowa-disaster.html

What was going on with the Clinton campaign? So let’s review. Around 8 p.m., those entrance-exit polls came out, and those numbers suggested that Clinton was going to romp—seven or eight points. Then around 9:00 or so it started to tighten a little. Then a lot. Hmm.

Then, around 10:30 or so, MSNBC and CNN started reporting that Clinton aides were claiming victory. She was less than one percentage point ahead, and Sanders was steadily closing. Then a little after 11 she comes out to speak. First of all she steps on Ted Cruz, the night’s big winner, who was entitled to give his victory speech without being bigfooted. Reporters had been told that Bill and Chelsea were going to speak, but when the time came they didn’t. And then on top of that, Clinton gives this weird speech that wasn’t quite a victory speech, certainly wasn’t a concession speech.


Why did she come out so early? It seems to me it had to be because she was afraid if she waited another hour, she’d have to give a concession speech.


It was very badly handled. Whereas Bernie Sanders was fine. He came out last, and he said what you’re supposed to say in his situation—they wrote us off, we were running against the most powerful political machine in America, and win or lose tonight, look at the impact we’ve had. Yes, obviously. That’s what you say. He hit the right notes.