While she kept saying, in her victory speech, some variant of “my heart is full” five or six times, I half expected the Sally Field Oscar acceptance: “you love me. You really love me.” The new, more human Hillary is going to grate in the opposite direction, I fear.

So, in retrospect, maybe Iowa was just picking the most religious/conservative Republican, and the most liberal liberal. Maybe it wasn’t about likeability per se. Until John Edwards actually withdraws — which would be the dignified thing to do, if that were his m.o. — we can’t see what the real ceiling for Democrat Hillary support is. But last night, according to exit polls reported by Fox, she got 47 percent of the women’s vote. You have to wonder.

Also, for what it’s worth, the Hillary moment that I thought was most defining was not the tears. I thought the most effective moment was her Saturday night debate bit, which caused much Corner eye-rolling when she angrily noted that change isn’t just what you say, it’s what you have done over a lifetime. Because, of course, it is true. Even if it isn’t quite as true about Hillary’s actual record of accomplishments as all that. And, for the record, that was a really nice, quite feminine suit she wore last night. Mrs. Thatcher wore dresses. It’s a start.