Nunca un segundo puesto dio para tanto. El Gobernador Bill Clinton perdió la primaria de New Hampshire por 8 puntos, pero se las arregló para convencernos a todos que la había ganado. En cuanto cerraron las urnas, viendo los sondeos a pie de urna, con el escrutinio oficial poco avanzado, salió a celebrar su segundo puesto por todo lo alto autoproclamándose "comeback kid" (el chaval que está de vuelta o el chaval que remonta). Esa temprana aparición pública del candidato reclamando que su segundo puesto era la historia de la jornada, permitió a su campaña orientar en una dirección concreta el análisis que los medios harían de los resultados.
James Carville, su jefe de campaña, lo cuenta así:
(...) With one night left, the polls looked bad. I knew that if we ran third in New Hampshire, we were out of the race. Staffers were talking as if the campaign would soon be over. Then the next day, Feb. 18, the first exit poll came back positive. After the 2 o'clock numbers held up, we started drafting a speech. Paul Begala came up with the line about the "Comeback Kid," and we got ahead of the story early in the night.
It was a personally and politically significant primary. In the face of all that adversity, we managed to win in New Hampshire by losing by 8 points. The press did not care that local boy Tsongas had won the primary; they were fascinated that Clinton came in a relatively close second. Clinton became the "Comeback Kid," and then the first president elected without winning the New Hampshire primary. (...)
Video: cobertura de C-SPAN y de WMUR, un canal local de Manchester, New Hampshire, aquella noche del 18 de febrero de 1992. El video dura 2 horas y 21 minutos.
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