The really bad news is that if Obama makes enough of a showing, she'll HAVE to bring him on the ticket, and that's scary.
I disagree. She won’t win the nomination. They hate her at DU.
I can see Gore or Edwards winning, but even that would be a stretch. Stupidly, they knocked Bayh and Warner off the ballot.
“The Clinton machine will cajole, intimidate, and otherwise coerce compliance.”
Ahhhhhh . . . true enough. But there is a whole different set of dynamics at play, here. This would be the Hitlary politics of personal destruction launced against another DIM! A black one at that. The media won’t play lap dog in this instance like it does when she attacks repuglicans. Not only will it be highly entertaining, she might just step on her d!ck and get caught in her own evilness.
If Hillary’s downward spiral continues, she will NOT win the nomination. Thank God.
I still think that attack ad linking her to 1984 and Orwellian thinking did a lot more damage than people realize.
Her problem is still the same. She is a basically distasteful, repugnant person who you dislike more and more with each encounter. If she can’t learn to turn on the charm like her “husband”, she’s dead meat.
Yeah, I’m not counting her out, but for her the slope is getting steeper, not easier.
not to me. Richardson is the guy who scares me as Hillary’s VP, because his pull with hispanics puts the western states in play, and makes margins otherwise tighter in states with hispanic demographics.
the DNC has the polling data to be sure - they know Obama’s chances in the general election. So if it looks like he is going to win the primary (ala Dean), watch for Gore to get it and make a late surge.
I’m not so sure she will win the nomination, but if she does and puts Obama on her ticket, I think they will certainly lose. I just don’t enough people will vote for two historic firsts on the ticket. BTW, I just bought your book.
I think if the Dems could get away with it, they'd choose Obama, Edwards or Gore over her.
We'll see..
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