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Hillary is going to lose the New Hampshire Democratic Primary tomorrow and she is going to lose big and she should. She has yet to make a case to anyone that, for her, being president is about anything more than it just being the culmination of her career and the final uber-accomplishment of a brilliant over achiever. Say what you will about Obama and Edwards but when they talk it usually seems to be about the people that they want to help as president. When Hillary talks, it is usually just about Hillary or the Republicans who hate her.
Unfortunately, no one in the echo chamber that she surrounds herself with will probably say this to her but you can’t and won’t ever win the presidency by getting just the people who already like you to vote for you. You need to convince those people who don’t know you. Often you even need need to convince those people who don’t like you that you are the least-worst option. Hillary cannot do either of these things and even if she survives the NH primary, survives the next roll of pre-Feb 5th states (none of which she will legitimately win) and goes on to somehow win the nomination she will get destroyed in the general election (or worse she and the Republican nominee will each get 49% of the electorate and then spend the next 6 months suing the country into oblivion.)
And it’s not because she’s a woman and it’s not because she cried a little bit (for herself by the way.) It’s because in the end people are tired of the Bushes and the Clintons and the red state / blue state paradigm and they only thing that Hillary seems to offer is more of the same.
Hillary is going to lose the New Hampshire Democratic Primary tomorrow and she is going to lose big and she should. She has yet to make a case to anyone that, for her, being president is about anything more than it just being the culmination of her career and the final uber-accomplishment of a brilliant over achiever. Say what you will about Obama and Edwards but when they talk it usually seems to be about the people that they want to help as president. When Hillary talks, it is usually just about Hillary or the Republicans who hate her.
Unfortunately, no one in the echo chamber that she surrounds herself with will probably say this to her but you can’t and won’t ever win the presidency by getting just the people who already like you to vote for you. You need to convince those people who don’t know you. Often you even need need to convince those people who don’t like you that you are the least-worst option. Hillary cannot do either of these things and even if she survives the NH primary, survives the next roll of pre-Feb 5th states (none of which she will legitimately win) and goes on to somehow win the nomination she will get destroyed in the general election (or worse she and the Republican nominee will each get 49% of the electorate and then spend the next 6 months suing the country into oblivion.)
And it’s not because she’s a woman and it’s not because she cried a little bit (for herself by the way.) It’s because in the end people are tired of the Bushes and the Clintons and the red state / blue state paradigm and they only thing that Hillary seems to offer is more of the same.
You didn't even mention that I still had 'tomorrow' - because I wrote that post yesterday.
And I know this will not inoculate me from being called a sexist and a hater but, I was a huge fan of Bill Clinton and enthusiastically voted for him twice. I would easily vote for any woman who I thought had the credentials, integrity and electability to become president (Christy Todd Whitman comes to mind and she's even a Republican!)
The fact is that Hillary has the highest negative rating of all the democrats and the republicans haven't even gone to work on her yet.
If Hillary cannot even win over people who are inclined to listen to her then how on Earth does anyone see her taking votes from a John McCain? When I think about the prospect of Hillary being the nominee I shudder (not regular shudders but Mondale / Dukakis shudders!)
This is an honest question to the Hillary supporters out there: Can you name 1 southern state (nope not even Florida) that you see Hillary winning in a general election? Can you even outline 1 reasonable scenario in which she can get the electoral votes she will need to win?
that voters just don't want Hillary Clinton? She's had the highest negative numbers for months despite her own intense efforts to "let the voters know the real her." It's not the media's fault, it's not Mark Penn's fault, it isn't even Bill Clinton's fault (how frustrated he must be, Gore was even more engaging than this), it's Hillary's fault.
So as Hillary loses and John Edwards loses even worse (is that the media's fault too?, the formula becomes clear:
Hillary wins - it's because of the courage of the voters.
Hillary loses - it's because the media hates her and the voters are too stupid to see past their complete manipulation of everyone's perception despite the countless one-on-one sessions that Hillary has been having with voters since Iowa.
Wow, I can't believe we aren't all lining up to support someone who's failings are everyone else's fault but hers.
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