Obama Defeats Clinton
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Those poor British newspapers, with their inconvenient deadlines, and fear of missing the story. Hillary Clinton's surprising victory in the New Hampshire primary came too late for newspapers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph. So their reporters filed stories based on polls putting Barack Obama comfortably ahead. Here's the Telegraph's story, but Rupert Murdoch's London Times was even more confident that Hillary Clinton would go down. (Anyone have a screenshot?) The media tycoon, who recently brought the Times' editor in to his latest acquisition, the Wall Street Journal, can't be too irate. He was the source, after all, for the New York Post splash that Dick Gephardt was John Kerry's chosen running mate.