The Eleventh Hour
Hillary Clinton emerged the comeback winner last night (and early this morning), as she added Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island to her “W” column. Exit polls showed that Texas voters who made their decision within the past three days, voted for Senator Clinton over Senator Obama, 63-37.
Hillary Clinton fought Obama to the end, releasing negative ads and offering combative stump speeches. Each mistake the Obama campaign made in the past few days, Clinton jumped: principally the Canada-NAFTA incident, and Tony Rezko. But more often than not, the Clinton campaign sought to turn the discussion back to her talking points.
Significantly, one of the ads the Clinton campaign released in Texas brought the conversation back to national security. In the context of who is best to “answer the red phone call in the middle of the night.” Timing is everything.