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Talk of Hillary exit engulfs campaign 
Facing defeat in New Hampshire, key advisers said to be split

Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!

"She can't take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada," laments one top campaign insider to the DRUDGE REPORT. "If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn't want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats."

Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary "could soon be out."

"Her money is going to dry up," Edwards confided, a top source said Monday morning.

Key players in Clinton's inner circle are said to be split. James Carville is urging her to fight it out through at least February and Super Tuesday, where she has a shot at thwarting Barack Obama in a big state.

"She did not work this hard to get out after one state! All this talk is nonsense," said one top adviser.

But others close to the former first lady now see no possible road to victory, sources claim.

I would rather have her than Obama.  But I just do not think she spent her money wisely.  I know outside of debates I heard nothing from her.  And the few snippets that I did hear about her were negative campaign tactics sort of things.  She stayed on party track with all the rhetoric.  Obama veered off in his speaches and made it sound like a new look.  He is younger which catches some of the younger crowd.  His defying the Pledge gets some of the youth riled up and thinking that is "cool".  He is actually a somewhat handsome fellow which helps with the women voters.
Will be a hard sell though to the general population I think. 

But I personally believe Obama is going to be the Dem this year.  I think Hilary had her time in the light and lost it.  And I do not think she will ever get it back either.

Personally I would think it just as bad to have either one as President. Yeah, the rare occasion that Clinton did speak she nailed herself to the wall. Her advisers finally told her to stop taking questions because of it. She wasn't very good at thinking on her feet, which is something that any speaker has to be good at.

Hillary says tears were turning point
But female questioner says Obama made her cry, and she voted for him

Sen. Hillary Clinton today pointed to her emotional display at a New Hampshire diner as a key moment that helped propel her to an unexpected victory last night following Sen. Barack Obama's resounding win in Iowa.

As WND reported, Sen. Clinton fought back tears Monday as she responded to a question about the hardships of the campaign trail.

Today, after defeating Obama with 39 percent of the New Hampshire vote to his 36 percent, she described it as a "wonderful moment" that enabled voters to "get a sense of why I do what I do."

"I'm really glad I had a chance to say what I believe in my heart," Clinton told CNN. "People realized the reason I do this is I love this country so profoundly. When the cameras turn off and the speeches are done, what have we actually done to improve people's lives."

On Monday, her eyes began to glisten as she talked about her commitment to the campaign.

"It's not easy, it's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I just didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do," Clinton said.

"I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said as her voice broke.

Polling place interviews showed the female vote – which deserted the former first lady when she finished third in last week's Iowa caucuses – was solidly in her New Hampshire column.

However, the woman who asked the question Monday, Marianne Pernold, told Baltimore's WMAL radio this morning she voted for Obama. Pernold explained to talk host Chris Core she had attended one of the Illinois senator's rallies Friday, and his stirring speech brought her to tears.

Pernold said the Clinton campaign invited her to the event in Portsmouth, a special gathering of 20 to 30 women at a coffee shop. The campaign got her name, she said, through her friendship with New Hampshire Speaker of the House Terie Norelli.

Pernold insisted her question was not scripted.

"I think there were all these questions being asked on issues, and my question was the last one, and I think it totally caught her offguard, because it was an intimate, caring question," Pernold said.

Did she think Clinton was sincere?

"Absolutely, absolutely," she told the radio host. "I don't think you can fake emotions like that."

But Pernold said she was emotionally smitten by Obama at a rally days before the primary.

"I was in tears, he moved me to tears, and he offered a fresh hope a new beginning and a new life and vibrancy," she said.

In contrast, Pernold continued, "Hillary has been in that political arena for so long, and I really admire her, I respect her totally. I think she's a phenomenal woman. ... "

Pernold hesitated at that point, then continued explaining why she went with Obama.

"The first 10 seconds of the interview were very genuine and very heartfelt and very one-on-one as a woman, and then when she turned away from me, she adopted that political stance again," Pernold said.

Clinton won handily among registered Democrats in New Hampshire, while Obama won over independents by an even larger margin.

"I come tonight with a very full heart and I want especially to thank New Hampshire," Clinton told a crowd of supporters at her campaign headquarters in Manchester last night. "Over the last week I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice.

"I felt like we all spoke from our hearts, and I'm so glad that you responded. Now together let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."

Obama said he was "still all fired up" and would continue to fight.

"For most of this campaign we were far behind," he said. "We always knew that our climb would be steep. ... With your voices and your votes you made it clear that at this moment, in this election, there is something happening in America."

Before the New Hampshire results came in, former President Bill Clinton tried to lower expectations for his wife, arguing the New Hampshire primary was scheduled too close to the Iowa Caucuses.

"It takes some time to undo that; for people to say, 'Well, this is our race in our state and we're going to think about this and give all these candidates a free shot,'" he said. "If this were 10 days after Iowa, instead of five, I believe we would have no doubt about what the outcome would be."

The Clinton campaign mobilized some 300 drivers; more than 6,000 volunteers to knock on doors.

If these were truly not crocodile tears then she has no place being the president of the U.S. We don't need someone that is going to go off on an emotional tangent like this when the going gets tough. The President of the U.S. has many more tough situations than any campaign can procure.

I dont mind the emotions.  If a candidate did not have emotions then I consider them less human. 

And either way if it came down to choosing between Obama and Hilary....I would choose Hilary.

The article points out what I had mentioned before...Obama is presenting a "new" outlook on things.  People just do not realize that a President's ideas on how things should work are only as strong as the Congress behind him.  If Obama's ideals are more radical than even a Democratic Congress wants to hear then he will get shut down and his Lame Duck will start really early :)