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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.
