Backpedaling

After enjoying a long lived lead as the "indisputable" Democratic front runner, it seems as though Hillary's on the brink of spiraling down into obscurity... And there's more than several reasons why.

Bill Shaheen, a major figure on the Clinton campaign trail officially fucked up - and now he's an ex-major figure. Shaheen brought up the question of her biggest competition's electability, warning that during the general election next year, Republicans could attack Obama's troubled adolescence: "Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?"

So... Anyone who's ever experimented with drugs is potentially a dealer? Or maybe it's because he's black?

Shaheen turned in his resignation Wednesday.

Now you'd think that there could be some lessons learned from such instances like that, but Clinton and her campaign are just digging their own grave. That very night on Hardball, another Clinton strategist, Mark Penn, played off his own stunt by "not mentioning" the drug topic, all the while bringing it up to try to milk it for even more attention. Are these people completely lost? The fact that Obama has the balls to tell the world about his experiences as well as the wisdom to point out his own mistakes for doing so, is a good thing! Many voters are looking for that bit of fresh air in the political world, we haven't had that honest of a candidate in a long time. Who's to say Clinton doesn't shoot up in the back of her bus before fundraisers? Have you ever seen her wear short sleeves?

But thank god she was there today to set the record straight and make it all better. Her apology without the apology part really gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

So what's all this cost her? Well here's the Iowa Democratic caucus accurate as of the 13th:

Obama - 29.8
Clinton - 26.8
Edwards - 21.8
Richardson - 7.7
Biden - 4.3*

New Hampshire is slightly more positive for her, but don't forget three important factors.
1) They're well within the margin of error, half of the polls show Obama ahead
2) A large portion of voters are afraid to go Obama unless they think that maybe he can pull it off
3) So, NH voters are going to be very influenced by whatever Iowa decides to do...

Clinton - 31.2
Obama- 28.5
Edwards - 15.2
Richardson - 6.8
Biden - 2.8*

It just goes to show you that this election isn't going to be a clean cut Clinton massacre. Though she may still lead nationally, anything can happen this next month.

So Hillary, please lay off the coke, ok?

*Polls based on the RCP Average