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To: GB
If you think Hillary can't win the presidency, you are politically naive and probably blinded by your own views and wishes.
100 posted on 03/25/2002 8:02:31 PM PST by RLK
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To: RLK
OK, please spell out how you think she COULD win the presidency.

I do not think she has a prayer of carrying anything other than the really hard-core liberal states ... and I think except for D.C., those are in play as well ... simply because she scares and polarizes people. Bill Clinton won because people liked him. G.W. Bush won because people liked him. Ronald Reagan won because people liked him. Bush pere won not so much because people liked him, but because his opponent was patently unlikeable. I know we'd like to all sit on our high horses and say that people win because of their policies/philosophies/etc., but in presidential elections, it usually comes down to likeability. I've given the example of my father here before, who was philosophically an old-line Labor Democrat and advocated positions that were polar opposite to the GOP, but voted Republican because he liked the candidates, particularly Reagan and Bush pere, better. My point, finally, is this ... who outside the nut left actually likes Hillary Clinton? Nobody (not even Bill). She doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the middle of the country that decides elections. Again, she'll scare 'em to death.

104 posted on 03/25/2002 8:11:38 PM PST by GB
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