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    "Hillary Deathwatch" Odds: 9.7 Percent

    Bill Clinton turns the conversation back to his wife's biggest weakness, Obama ticks off the grass roots, and Hillary laughs again—always bad news—sinking her back down 0.5 points to 9.7 percent.

    Hillary Clinton's Bosnia wound was this close to healing—the cast was off, the skin had closed, she was just starting to walk again unassisted—when Bill decided to rip it open again. Twice! At a stop Thursday in Boonville, Ind., Clinton defended his wife (unprompted, mind you) by saying, "There was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995." Never mind that she repeated the story several times, that the attention-getting March 17 speech occurred in the morning, and that she by no means "immediately apologized"—quite the opposite, it was a full week before she acknowledged that she "misspoke," which is not the same as apologizing. Oh, and the trip was in 1996, not 1995. ...

    Read more at the Hillary Deathwatch

About Christopher Beam

  • Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter.
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