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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the topic for a pair of reports on ABC. Kate Snow remarked on how polarizing she is, "her strongest supporters intense in their support, her biggest detractors even more intense." Snow's case in point was the tiny spot of trouble candidate John McCain found himself in when he chuckled at--rather than repudiating--a Republican questioner in South Carolina: "How do we beat the bitch?" Previewing tomorrow's Democratic candidates' debate, George Stephanopoulos remarked that Rodham Clinton received "a big dose of Excedrin" from her home state's Gov Eliot Spitzer when he nixed the plan for immigrant driver's licenses that had given her such a headache at the last debate (text link). Yet rival Barack Obama is still hammering away at her "character and credibility," as Stephanopoulos put it, quoting Obama's twofer statement that tied those licenses to the supposedly planted softball questions that NBC's Andrea Mitchell covered on Monday: "When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it is easy to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them."
Stephanopoulos then turned to the Republican race with a heads-up on Mike Huckabee, following the CBS News poll (text link) from Iowa that anchor Katie Couric cited yesterday: "He is a former Southern Baptist preacher. He has got a great sense of humor, a real home touch. He is in sync with the activists on these social issues." Stephanopoulos predicted that both Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson would now target Huckabee. Huckabee's response: "No one comes out of the Arkansas political environment with a glass jaw."
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