[kcar]

"both her opponents and critics say she should not be underestimated"

The bigger danger lurks in overestimating her. She is as electable as Ted Kennedy was after he drunkenly plummeted off the bridge, and heroically managed to save himself. Every four years they'd threaten he might yet run "sometime in the future" - despite the personal tragedy of his family - but he'll be begged to run by adoring Democrat sapsuckers, and yet cold numerical analysis always revealed he couldn't win anyway.

It might be better for her to go for the bait and get trounced than to become a lifer senator always threatening to threaten.

[expatpat]

Interesting analogy. I hope you are right.