Adam Nagourney had one of the few rational treatments of Karl Rove. I guarantee none of the top-tier Republican candidates want to run against Hillary Clinton. Ask Barack Obama and John Edwards how they are enjoying it. It's got to be frustrating as hell.
The Republicans can do the math on the women's vote demographics. And, the whole issue of going negative against Clinton is dicey. Everyone who has tried it has gotten burned. As her support among women hardens, going negative carries increasing risk. Ask the Washington Post about the response to their cleavage article...or poor John Edwards for making what he thought was a good-natured jab at her brightly colored jacket. Every female pundit in the country showed up on the Sunday talk shows wearing coral jackets.
Yeah I share that view as well . She is going to bring in Arkansas and probably Florida , can't say that for others.
She is going to be tough to beat.
I enjoy catching the Fox News roundtable discussions every so often to get the "official" Republican punditry talking points.
Tonight they talked about the Clinton "what if something happens with terrorism before the election" flap.
The Weekly Standards' Fred Barnes said Clinton was right both counts. Everyone in politics knows that the Republicans get a perception boost when threat levels and increase and everyone knows that Clinton is the Democrats strongest candidate to combat it because she's positioned herself so well on national security.
The despised Charles Krautheimer said Obama was talking nonsense saying that you can't politicize terrorism. Krautheimer asked how terrorism could possible NOT be a topic for political discussion since it's the number one issue in the election?
There's this weird dynamic going on. The Democratic netroots and the Republican wingnut equivalents are trying to paint Clinton as the spawn of the devil. Everyone else either likes her or pays grudging respect to candidate who is playing the game at a very high level. It's as if both the Democratic and Republican primaries are in orbit around Clinton. She's the 800 pound gorilla on the political scene right now.
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PS: I see Bill Clinton has a new book hitting the newsstands next week. I bet it outsells Carl Bernstein's book!
l'll recommend. As you may know, I like the Roundup model as an effective way to promote a candidate. Good work.
I read some article that said Hillary had an 85 percent favorable rating among democrats- more than the others- and that it is going to be very risky of Obama and Edwards to attack someone who is viewed so favorably by their own party.
she has higher favorables and higher "very favorables" than the all the democrats running (among democrats)
