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Hillary Clinton would have been well-served if her publisher, Simon & Schuster, had hired a few political consultants, some Carvilles or Begalas, to direct the company's marketing campaign on behalf her latest book, Living History. Despite reports of record first-day sales, the publisher mismanaged a crucial event in Hillary's political career, and she will be forced to pay for its errors with even less credibility in the future than she started with. The first and biggest mistake from a political perspective was allowing -- even encouraging -- expectations for the book to grow out of control. An $8 million book...

June 19, 2003 -- Bush Has Big Lead Over Dem Challengers In New Jersey, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Hillary Clinton Would Dominate Dem Pack President George W. Bush's approval rating has dropped to 58 -- 39 percent in New Jersey, but he still has a solid early lead over any of the possible Democratic challengers in the run for the White House, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released June 19. New Jersey voters gave President Bush a 67 -- 29 percent approval in an April 1 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. In a hypothetical look at the...

In addressing the epic 5-4 Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for President Bush’s 2000 victory in the Electoral College, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told Charlie Rose, “I think they made a decision that was politically motivated and unprecedented. They claimed to be supporters of states’ rights but then took the position that Florida law was not controlling…” Still on the TV talk show circuit touting her “Living History,” Hillary seemed to appreciate that host Rose put aside the now well-hashed subject of her personal trials and tribulations and concentrated on all things political during her appearance on...

By coincidence two parallel fictions ran simultaneously in my household Sunday night. In the kitchen, I caught snippets of Hillary Clinton and Barbara Walters musing over the New York senator's new book, while my male associates gathered in another room to indulge their apparently insatiable appetite for The Godfather. Dazzling performances all 'round on a theme that's nearly become an American leitmotif: denial. Hillary, whose $8 million memoir Living History hit bookstores Monday, is telling Walters how she felt on the morning of Aug. 15, 1998, when Bill woke her up to confess his affair with that woman, Monica Lewinsky:...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's bob-and-weave with Barbara Walters Sunday night scored less than a third as many viewers as had Walters's '99 chitchat with Monica Lewinsky, giving ABC a third-place finish in last week's ratings race. Here's a look at the week's Lewinskys and Clintons LOSERSSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yes, the former first lady's tight-lipped interview touting her new book copped 13.5 million viewers for ABC on Sunday -- the net's biggest summer audience in the time slot since 1995. But that number, for an interview in which Clinton was supposed to finally talk about her husband's affair with White...

Having survived and gotten elected to the Senate without talking about her stormy relationship with her husband, why on earth would Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) do so now? She must know that few people, if any, believe that she didn't know that her husband was dallying with Monica Lewinsky. She has to realize how parading the phony explanation that she only "found out" on Aug. 15, 1998, wears down her credibility. Is there anyone who really believes that she didn’t know despite: His admitting, under oath, to an affair with Gennifer Flowers; The stain on Monica's dress; The FBI request...

PRINCETON, NJ -- She may be the most controversial first lady in American history. She is the first first lady to run for office on her own after leaving the White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs "Living History" fetched an $8 million advance from publisher Simon & Schuster -- one of the highest book advances for a political figure on record. The New York senator's book hits the shelves at America's bookstores Monday, and figures to be another chapter in the public's love-hate relationship with the Clintons. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted May 30-June 1, asked Americans for the...

It is not merely the ranting of radio talk show hosts and their callers. It is not just daydreaming by political junkies. It's still a long shot, but it really could happen. Hillary in '04! No, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is not about to announce her candidacy for president in 2004, joining the jostling pack of Democratic candidates elbowing each other and participating in their first debate this weekend in South Carolina. Her reputation for keeping secrets is well-known, but everybody believes she is planning to sit out 2004 and aiming for the 2008 election to run...