A reader writes:
Despite the poll numbers you link, I think your analysis of her viability in the general is all wrong. My sense is her tougher race is actually in the primary (as an Obama fan, I hope so). But if she makes it out of super-dooper Tuesday, she’ll be the 44th President of the United States.
Look at her first Senate race in New York. Her negatives were fresh as can be, and she was labeled everything from a carpet-bagger to a carpet-muncher. Yet she kicked @ss. Why? She worked her @ss off, knew her sh!t better than anyone else, and as a result, she eventually endeared herself to enough of the electorate to win handily. The woman does her homework and surrounds herself with incredibly bright people. One simply cannot discount her cunning and smarts, especially when today’s polling merely captures the masses’ knee-jerk reactions to her name. It’ll be an entirely different story once it’s the right time and she has enough money to sprinkle more Clinton dust over everyone.
Finally, Hillary, more than any of the other Democratic contenders, can communicate what her administration would deliver versus what another Republican administration would impose. She outclasses all of the Republican candidates by leaps and bounds. Once the campaign truly gets underway and her operation is clicking on all cylinders, there will be no stopping her.
The Dish 