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Following the Jefferson Jackson Dinner held by Iowa Democrats this weekend, both NBC and ABC checked in on the race for the Presidential nomination. ABC's David Wright saw frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton "on the defensive" as Barack Obama and John Edwards "are both turning up the heat, their approach almost good-cop-bad-cop." Wright played Obama's applause line at the dinner: "Triangulating and poll driven positions, because we are worried what Mitt or Rudy might say about us, just will not do." Rodham Clinton herself was accused of answering softball questions planted with audience members by aides, "a timeworn political trick," as Andrea Mitchell called it for NBC's In Depth. Mitchell noted that Rodham Clinton still has a tidy lead over Obama among African-American Democrats. She played a soundbite from an interview on the topic by Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe with would-be First Lady Michelle Obama. "I am completely confident black America will wake up and get it," the candidate's wife predicted. "What we are dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility…always being told by somebody that I am not ready."
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