The Day After New Hampshire

What a difference a day makes! Yesterday Barack Obama was a rock star, today he can barely get his face on the front page of any newspaper in the country. Hillary is the face du jour, many papers using the tease WHO'S CRYING NOW? to accompany the picture.

A lot of newspapers chose a similar image to the one that appears on the cover of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a broadly smiling Hillary Clinton with her arms outstretched, as if embracing the crowd.

But have a look at the cover of USA Today this morning:

In a way this is a much warmer picture of Hillary. Her smile appears really genuine, the photo is closely cropped so she's not seen in relation to a crowd, but the viewer looks only and directly at her face. The image of McCain (to the left of Hillary) shows him waving, in an image that somewhat obscures his face and gives the sense also of a slight pushing away from the viewer.

And the next venue of battle is South Carolina. Have a look at The Herald. Could they have chosen a less flattering photo of Hillary Clinton, while the small picture of Romney looks like he's conceding: