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Hillary Clinton's Image Softens, Moves To Center
MyWestTexas.com ^ | Judy Holland

Posted on 11/15/2004 3:59:32 PM PST by MisterRepublican

WASHINGTON - Recent polls show the public's image of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gradually morphing from sharply controversial First Lady to centrist constituent-minded senator. Although still a polarizing figure, the first-term lawmaker could use the makeover to position herself for a White House run in 2008.

Political strategists say Clinton has impressed Senate colleagues and constituents by working methodically on New York issues while taking moderate or conservative stances on controversies such as the war in Iraq.

"A majority feel positive toward her," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "She's being seen as being more effective and sticking to her job. She's managed to shape her role in a way that's more acceptable. She's in a transition."

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To: mainepatsfan
No doubt.

Thank you, Barbara.

101 posted on 11/15/2004 4:55:03 PM PST by Ladysmith (November 2, 2004: Taking America BACK!!!)
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To: Trepz

I hope someone throws some holy water on her. She'll melt just like the insidious witch she truly is.


102 posted on 11/15/2004 4:56:05 PM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

"look for evidence of aiming her campaign at the most impressionable among us."

Precisely, and that is why we had better be working diligently on these youth between now and 2008, educating them about the evils of socialism espoused by the liberal pigs.


103 posted on 11/15/2004 4:56:57 PM PST by rj45mis
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To: MisterRepublican

Anything the media can do for her, they will do-starting today.


104 posted on 11/15/2004 4:58:02 PM PST by Jim Noble (FR Iraq policy debate begins 11/3/04. Pass the word.)
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To: proud American in Canada
Thanks for the kind words... these?

(please see my previous post--I worry about the "outlawing Roe v. Wade" propaganda). You know what's sad about the whole thing? That the success of a Republican president could mean the downfall of the next Republican candidate.

Are very good points. There's a lot of heavy lifting ahead.

105 posted on 11/15/2004 4:58:07 PM PST by backhoe (Has that Clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?)
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To: MisterRepublican
"A majority feel positive toward her,"

A Majority of what ? Blue States ?


106 posted on 11/15/2004 4:59:49 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (FEEL THE BURN *******SIZZLE SIZZLE*********)
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To: Dog Gone
Hillary 47% Approval, 45% Disapproval, 8% on the Fence.

All she needs is what? 4% of those undecideds. And 4 years to do it.... It's a race already, and she's moving to the center (in appearance at least).

107 posted on 11/15/2004 5:01:59 PM PST by theDentist (Proud Member of FreeRepublic 's "Pyjama-Hadeen")
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To: rj45mis
we had better be working diligently on these youth

agreed. of course the best education is example. I see a lot of opportunity for this in the "ownership society," yet another home run of a Bush doctrine.

108 posted on 11/15/2004 5:03:15 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: falpro

Oops, AR not AK.


109 posted on 11/15/2004 5:04:38 PM PST by falpro
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To: MisterRepublican

Time to ditch the black pantsuits and break out the "pretty in pink" suits. Image over substance.


110 posted on 11/15/2004 5:08:05 PM PST by Carolinamom
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To: theDentist

Her unfavorable rating is much higher than Bush's or even Kerry's. I'm not dismissing the threat of Hillary, but a very high percentage of Americans have already come to the conclusion that they don't like her at all.


111 posted on 11/15/2004 5:09:37 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: upchuck

I think they have confused "softening" with melting.


112 posted on 11/15/2004 5:09:43 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Mogollon

Not without fixing voter fraud. She has the Daly machine oiled and fine-tuned.


113 posted on 11/15/2004 5:10:46 PM PST by FrogMom
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To: ladylib

"...holy water"

She is the antichrist- beelzebubbette- pure evil incarnate. She is here to mark the end of time. And wanna know something, I'm not sure anyone can stop her.

Whatever the hell you do DON"T LOOK INTO HER EYES!


114 posted on 11/15/2004 5:11:45 PM PST by US admirer
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To: MisterRepublican
Hillary Clinton's Image Softens, Moves To Center

Lemme get this straight...she abandoned Arkansas as soon as practicable,
ran as a carpetbagger in a state that just a vote or two from gay marriages...
...and she's becoming a Christian Centrist?

Sounds like them there boys at Industrial Light And Magic have been workin' overtime!
115 posted on 11/15/2004 5:14:09 PM PST by VOA
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To: Dog Gone; anniegetyourgun; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
She has a 45% unfavorable rating. That's going to be tough to overcome.

And it's been pointed out elsewhere on this forum via direct link to DU that even "they" don't want her to run.

116 posted on 11/15/2004 5:16:06 PM PST by cgk (The Left was beaten by Pres Bush twice & will never have another shot at him... who's dumb?)
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To: IStillBelieve
You're right....people will expect tons of puff pieces like this....for sure! What's so amazing is that the MSM still doesn't get it...That we aren't stupid out here. We know when a politician is insulting our intelligence with bogus changes in position to get elected.

Hillary is a flaming liberal. No matter what she says or does in between now and the time she runs for president, voters know exactly what a Hillary Clinton administration would mean for the country.

117 posted on 11/15/2004 5:17:04 PM PST by YaYa123 (@Look what happened to Kerry when he tried a head fake on voters.com)
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To: cgk

If anyone suggests Hillary run on DU, they're immediately accused of being a Freeper. Those threads are hilarious.


118 posted on 11/15/2004 5:19:50 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: MisterRepublican

When the media says she is remaking herself, moving left to gear up for a run for the Presidency, don't people realize that it is all phony? Are they this stupid?


119 posted on 11/15/2004 5:21:22 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
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To: US admirer

The sparkle in her eyes isn't the light bouncing off her contact lenses. It's something evil/LOL.


120 posted on 11/15/2004 5:21:41 PM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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