Joe and I were discussing this very point yesterday. Would the hostage crisis at Hillary's campaign office in Rochester, NH have any impact on her campaign? We thought that maybe - maybe - if she appeared in public with the right demeanor, she could have her Giuliani 9/11 moment, though clearly in miniature. AP seems to think that she pulled it off:
It was a vintage example of a candidate taking a negative and turning it into a positive. And coming just six weeks before the presidential voting begins, the timing could hardly have been more beneficial to someone hoping to stave off a loss in the Iowa caucuses and secure a win in the New Hampshire primary.I'm not convinced that she'll get that big a bump, but you never know, in New Hampshire at least, she might get a small sympathy bump, and that can't hurt. Except that she needed the sympathy bump in January, when folks in NH are actually voting. Yet again, Hillary may have peaked too soon.
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