A year ahead of the November 2008 Presidential election – an eternity in fast-changing national politics – the Democrats, according to the latest polls, appear determined to nominate New York’s Senator Hillary Clinton. The first voters will cast their ballots in early January 2008 at the Iowa caucuses and soon after in the New Hampshire primary. Hillary leads in polls in both states.
Hillary is “inevitable,” brag her managers at this very early stage of the race. Even though she leads in fundraising by a very comfortable margin and her organization, seasoned by President Bill Clinton’s two national victories, is superior to any other in either party, her campaign advisers should know better.
Is Hillary “Inevitable?”
Although a CBS News national poll reports Hillary’s rating is 44 percent, she could still stumble. Hillary is an extremely polarizing figure. Her negatives in the polls range upwards of 40 percent, a very high figure for a frontrunner. The prospect of another eight years spent under both Clintons who would be dominating domestic and global politics repels many fed-up voters and especially energizes deeply anti-Clinton angry Republicans and conservative-leaning Independents. No one in the electorate is truly “neutral” about Hillary or both Clintons.
Although Hillary shows little sign yet of suffering from widely speculated “Clinton fatigue” in polls, my conversations with Democratic male and female voters of a certain age, especially mature educated women, convince me they mistrust her and think she is insincere.
Is it possible that the first woman presidential candidate will be defeated by voters of her own gender? Perhaps not younger women, who want the breakthrough but who have a terrible voter-turnout record, but older and more experienced ladies who want the first woman in the White House to be the most qualified, representative and dependable. I can’t answer that question but I dare to raise it and invite responses.
And, for all those women out there who have asked why Hillary didn’t dump Bill after he “betrayed” her, we now have the official answer thanks to the New York Post’s notorious “Page Six”, 10/27/07.
Biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her upcoming book about the Clintons – For Love of Politics – that Hillary’s first reaction upon discovering that Bill had carried on an affair with Monica Lewinsky was that her husband “couldn’t be that insane.” She had reacted to the fact that it took place in the Oval Office for 18 months. Smith told WOR radio’s Steve Malzberg that a close pal of Hillary’s said she was aware of her hubby’s cheating ways long before Lewinsky….
“Hillary has always had very strong presidential aspirations and she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life. Smith learned about Hillary’s strategy from a friend of the senator: …Whenever he misbehaved, her first reaction was not ‘you’ve been a bad boy,’ but, ‘how can we get out of this?’”
That is one politically determined woman – you think?
(The Democratic Presidential contenders all went after Hillary Clinton at their Oct. 30 debate in Philadelphia. Read the transcript)
Although Hillary shows little sign yet of suffering from widely speculated “Clinton fatigue” in polls, my conversations with Democratic male and female voters of a certain age, especially mature educated women, convince me they mistrust her and think she is insincere.
Is it possible that the first woman presidential candidate will be defeated by voters of her own gender? Perhaps not younger women, who want the breakthrough but who have a terrible voter-turnout record, but older and more experienced ladies who want the first woman in the White House to be the most qualified, representative and dependable. I can’t answer that question but I dare to raise it and invite responses.
And, for all those women out there who have asked why Hillary didn’t dump Bill after he “betrayed” her, we now have the official answer thanks to the New York Post’s notorious “Page Six”, 10/27/07.
Biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her upcoming book about the Clintons – For Love of Politics – that Hillary’s first reaction upon discovering that Bill had carried on an affair with Monica Lewinsky was that her husband “couldn’t be that insane.” She had reacted to the fact that it took place in the Oval Office for 18 months. Smith told WOR radio’s Steve Malzberg that a close pal of Hillary’s said she was aware of her hubby’s cheating ways long before Lewinsky….
“Hillary has always had very strong presidential aspirations and she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life. Smith learned about Hillary’s strategy from a friend of the senator: …Whenever he misbehaved, her first reaction was not ‘you’ve been a bad boy,’ but, ‘how can we get out of this?’”
That is one politically determined woman – you think?
(The Democratic Presidential contenders all went after Hillary Clinton at their Oct. 30 debate in Philadelphia. Read the transcript)
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