Polls? Who needs them.

The speeches from last night.

Clinton


Obama


Daily Kos gives a post mortem of the night.

Seeing Brokaw take Matthews to task almost made it worthwhile sitting through Matthews' cutting off of others giving analysis.

Things didn't go to script last night. Obama didn't get the win, Clinton didn't have her career banished to the Phantom Zone. Good. I haven't picked my candidate, but it seemed to call Obama doomed before things turned in Iowa is dumb, and to call Clinton's campaign dead after Iowa was plain stupid. They are the front runners, and people are now starting to see them. And with a win each, they have both been tarnished and bruised and now that they know they are not teflon or destined. I look forward to Clinton learning a valued lesson, and Obama giving a more in depth argument for his ascension. If they do this season will be great.

And the crap that Clinton had thrown at her makes it a bit sweeter.








Feministing:

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This I'm a little late on--it seems several young men at a campaign event in New
Hampshire yesterday started yelling out "Iron my shirt!"

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From Christopher Hitchens, who is so sharp on religion, is so wrong almost everywhere else:

Off to the side, snarling with barely concealed rage, are the Clinton machine-minders, who, having failed to ignite the same kind of identity excitement with an aging and resentful female, are perhaps wishing that they had made more of her errant husband having already been "our first black president."

More on Feministing:

Fox News' Your World recently featured "No Nonsense Man" Marc Rudov, who commented that "When Barack Obama speaks, men hear, 'Take off for the future.' And when Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear, 'Take out the garbage.' " The text on-screen during his appearance...well, you can see it for yourself.

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And the glory that is Chris Matthews:

Chris Matthews really needs his own category when it comes to sexist bullshit, but this really got me. I haven't had my cheeks pinched as an adult, well...ever. But I admire Clinton's restraint--I would have lost my shit.

And last night Matthews seemed to see the error of his ways, promising to not underestimate Clinton. But a good nights sleep helped him.

Matthews: I think the Hillary appeal has always been about the mix of toughness and sympathy. Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a US Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband messed around.

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Matthews: That's how she got to be a Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on her merit, she won because everybody felt, "My God, this woman stood up under humiliation," right? That's what happened. That's how it happened. In 1998, she went to NY and campaigned for Chuck Schumer as almost like the grieving widow of absurdity, and she did it so well and courageously. But it was about the humilation of Bill Clinton.

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And Pam Spaulding nails it, calling it "'The Tweety Effect,' where the misogyny of a talking head in the MSM so enrages a demographic that they go out and vote in a manner that will put egg on the face of the talking head."

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SO, SHUT UP CHRIS MATTHEWS!

Only the witty and determined Rachel Maddow has been willing to call Matthews on his B.S.

TPM takes us through the key moments for Clinton post-Iowa.