On days like this I'm glad I don't make my living as a pollster or political prognosticator. We all awoke this morning to their collective "oops." Hillary won. McCain beat Romney is his own back yard and the overall 2008 campaign has a completely different feel than it did this time yesterday.
I just spoke with Mike Huckabee's press secretary and she seemed as upbeat as her boss did last night when addressing supporters in NH. And why shouldn't they feel upbeat? A couple of months ago the Huckabee campaign was largely treated as little more than a debate placeholder and now his crowds are growing, riding the wave of his Iowa victory. He finished third in NH, by the way and is scheduled to return to Florida Saturday.
Fred Thompson was trounced in NH yesterday finishing a distant sixth. Ron Paul beat him by 16,000 votes or so. But the former senator from TN never seemed to try to be competitive there. I just got off the phone with one of Thompson's advisers who told me the campaign has no plans to change strategy. The strategy is and has been to hold on until South Carolina and start to really shine there.
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