If Obama gets the nomination but loses to McCain badly, I fully expect to see Hillary as the Dem candidate in 2012. The party leftists will throw up their hands and let her have the nomination because they would want a winner despite their misgivings about the Clintons. I'm not saying she'd win, but most of the other Dems are inconsequential clowns.
If Obama loses in November...I think it would depend on how he looses. If he looses in a squeaker then I don’t hik he’ll pay a very heavy political price. If he gets beat convincingly, then there will be hell to pay and your assertion may very will come to pass.
Consider though, in 2012 she’ll be running for re-election to her senate seat so it will be do or die time then.
If Obama gets the nomination but loses to McCain....
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Not happenin’. Can you say “President Obama”?