Game Change - the rest of the Democratic race

Here we go:

• On the day of the New Hampshire primary Hillary demoted her close friend and campaign manager... by e-mail. (187)

After losing Iowa but winning New Hampshire and Nevada Bill insisted on going to the next contest - South Carolina. The campaign wanted to write off the state and focus on the mega-contests on Super Tuesday but Bill insisted. He proceeded to offend blacks and many who had long admired him (including me). "All during the campaign, media and cocktail party psychobabble had abounded as to whether the former president actually wanted his wife to win. Now, for the first time, Hillary's closest aides began to contemplate the question seriously - asking themselves whether, on some unconscious level, he'd been trying to sabotage her." (212-13)

• After Obama dominated Hillary 55-27 in South Carolina Bill pointed out, "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jesse ran a good campaign here. And Obama ran a good campaign here." (214) The attempt to marginalize Obama as the "black candidate" was not lost on the Obama campaign.
• While Iowa put the Obama train into motion, North Carolina sealed the deal. As Tim Russert said that night, "We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be and no one is going to dispute it." (249)
• Hillary told Penn she wasn't interested in being VP, "I've already done that job." (261). From what I've read from Gore I think he'd agree.