The morning of November 12, 2007, our deputy editor Joe Sudbay told me that he didn't think Hillary was going to win the Democratic nomination. I said, huh? He said, yeah. So I thought it would make an interesting, if not kooky, podcast. I decided to listen to the podcast again, since now we know the rest of the story. Joe's main point was that he had a sense that Hillary was stumbling. She was going to lose Iowa, and that would set her up to lose New Hampshire - and the rest would be downhill from there. In fact, Obama won Iowa but Hillary won New Hampshire. Joe thought it would be over by Super Tuesday, with Hillary losing. In fact, it wasn't. But she never got her mojo fully back after her loss in Iowa. Iowa put Obama on the map, destroyed Hillary's inevitability, and Hillary never caught up. You can listen to the podcast again here, if you like.
