Can Huckabee last, will McCain know what to do with his new standing in the polls, are Romney’s wounds mortal, what’s the next step for Thompson, and what does it all mean for Rudy–the results tonight have tended to concentrate our attention on tactical questions. But the caucuses produced one genuinely historic result. For 15 years–a full generation–the Clintons have dominated one of this nation’s two great parties, trimming and triangulating, dispensing and withholding party favors to reward their friends and punish their enemies, and tainting the party again and again with their scandals.
But tonight?
Seventy percent of Democrats voted against Hillary Clinton.