Thursday, January 3, 2008

Just A Little Context

“I didn’t win a race until I got to Georgia,” Bill Clinton, in jeans and an overcoat, told a small group of reporters. “You just got to keep going. It is a long process.”

True, but...

1. Iowa was uncontested in 1992.

2. Since he was from Massachusetts, Paul Tsongas was a semi-favorite son in New Hampshire in 1992.

and

3. Bill Clinton didn't begin the race as the odds-on frontrunner.