Hillary would rather take a clean shot in '08, but if her people begin to think Dean might have a chance of winning, she will jump in.
The same thing happened in '68. Bobby Kennedy was gonna wait till '72, but when Eugene McCarthy began to look like a winner he knew he had to jump in or be shut out forever.
Plus, she and Slick jumped in in '92 and the big names like Mario Cuomo waited too long and lost out.
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It wasn't that Eugene was formidable-- just that LBJ was vulnerable. Eugene was in the right place at the right time. RFK, though, knew he would be formidable so he ran.