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Hillary Clinton Campaign Press Release - The Reviews Pour In: 'That's Why The Lady Is The Champ'

November 16, 2007

DES MOINES REGISTER'S DAVID YEPSEN - 'THAT'S WHY THE LADY IS THE CHAMP': "The evening gave her rivals a chance to trip her up some more. They blew it." [Des Moines Register, 11/16/07 ]

DES MOINES REGISTER'S DAVID YEPSEN - OBAMA 'SEEMED FLUMMOXED...GOT BOOED' AND 'JOHN EDWARDS SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME... HAD A POOR NIGHT.' "They blew it. Barack Obama had only an average night, and on a couple of questions he seemed flummoxed... Moderator Wolf Blitzer underscored Obama's fumbling by reminding him the question 'is sort of available for a yes or no answer.' By contrast, Clinton gave the answer she should have in the last debate: 'No.' Also, Obama got booed... John Edwards should have stayed home... Edwards also had a poor night because for the first time, the differences between his votes as a U.S. senator and his talk now came into clear focus. " [Des Moines Register, 11/15/07 ]

LAS VEGAS SUN'S JON RALSTON - 'IT CLEARLY WAS AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED [FOR OBAMA] ... FOR CLINTON, IT WAS A ...UNFLAPPABLE PERFORMANCE' [Las Vegas Sun, 11/16/07 ]

AP'S BETH FOUHY: HILLARY WAS 'POISED, CONFIDENT AND READY TO RUMBLE' [AP, 11/16/07]

NEWSWEEK'S HOWARD FINEMAN - 'IT WAS ONCE AGAIN HILLARY'S NIGHT... OBAMA, BY CONTRAST, WAS...BOBBING AND WEAVING.' [Newsweek, 11/16/07 ]

CBS NEWS' BOB SCHIEFFER - 'THIS WAS HILLARY CLINTON'S NIGHT' [CBS Early Show, 11/16/07]

POLITICO'S ROGER SIMON - HILLARY 'GAVE AS GOOD AS SHE GOT. AND THOSE WHO TRIED TO KICK HER, STUBBED THEIR TOES' [Politico, 11/16/07 ]

ABC NEWS' DAVID CHALIAN - HILLARY 'SUCCESSFULLY [GOT] HER CAMPAIGN SHIP BACK ON COURSE' [ABC News, 11/16/07 ]

SLATE'S JOHN DICKERSON -- CLINTON HAD A 'WINNING FIGHT NIGHT' In a piece titled, 'Clinton's winning fight night,' Slate's John Dickerson wrote, "In Vegas Hillary looks like a front runner again." [Slate.com, 11/16/07 ]

TAEGAN GODDARD - 'IT'S CLEAR SEN. HILLARY CLINTON WON TONIGHT'S DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IN NEVADA...' [Political Wire, 11/15/07 ]

LAS VEGAS SUN'S BARRY HORSTMAN - 'ASBESTOS-CLAD CLINTON DOUSES OPPONENTS' FIRE' [Las Vegas Sun blog, 11/16/07 ]

ABC NEWS' GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS - 'WHEN BARACK OBAMA COUNTERATTACKED ON THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL SECURITY, HE GOT BOOED... HILLARY HAD THE CROWD IN HER HANDS LAST NIGHT' [ABC Good Morning America, 11/16/07]

NEW YORK TIMES' ARIEL ALEXOVICH - 'CLINTON BACK ON HER GAME' [New York Times' Caucus, 11/17/07 ]

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS' JOSH GREENMAN - HILLARY 'PLAYS ALL THE RIGHT CARDS AND HITS JACKPOT' [New York Daily News, 11/16/07 ]

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - HILLARY WAS 'CRISP, COMPOSED AND IN COMMAND' [New York Daily News, 11/16/07 ]

NEWSWEEK'S JONATHAN ALTER - EDWARDS 'DID NOT HAVE A PARTICULARLY GOOD NIGHT' [MSNBC, 11/16/07]

NEW YORK SUN'S ELI LAKE - 'OBAMA FALTERS OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS' In a piece titled, 'Obama falters over illegal immigrants,' The New York Sun writes, "Senator Obama, who has presented himself as the top alternative to Senator Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary race, had problems with a debate question on the same topic Mrs. Clinton flubbed in their party's last debate: illegal immigration." [New York Sun, 11/16/07 ]

POLITICO'S BEN SMITH - OBAMA AND EDWARDS 'SEEMED TO LOSE MOMENTUM' [Politico, 11/15/07 ]

Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Campaign Press Release - The Reviews Pour In: 'That's Why The Lady Is The Champ' Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/292678

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