Let me finish tonight with this huge day for Hillary Clinton.
You truly can’t predict politics. Sure, you can know certain patterns. There are rules in the world of politics. (I wrote about them in my first book Hardball back in 1988.)
When someone breaks one of those rules, you can almost hear an old-timer saying, “it just goes to show…” and then out comes one of the ancient truths of how to deal effectively with people if you want to get ahead and stay there.
Then there are the “unpredictables,” the game-changers, the events and people who pop onto the screen–or squirm free from expectations–and change the course of mighty rivers.
I’m thinking of FDR who came back from polio and Harry Truman who came back from the political dead in 1948. I’m thinking of Ronald Reagan who got beaten twice for the presidential nomination then came back to pick up all the pieces, or Barack Obama, who came out of nowhere to win two terms in the White House.
The success of the Clintons is, dare I say the obvious–impossible to predict.









