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Fact is: Hillary Clinton is one of the most popular politicians in the United States. Her "high negatives" are really not much higher than the rest of the Democratic candidates. They're only four points higher than Obama's, for example.
This is the time with the "Purists" come out of the woodwork, tell us they're Democrats, and then self-righteously proclaim that no one in the Democratic field is "pure" enough--except for their choice, which is Hart, or Bradley, (or Nader), and now Obama.
Then, when they lose, they proclaim a pox on the Democratic Party (which they never thought much of anyway), and sit out the election, giving us first Richard Nixon, then George W. Bush.
Like these folks are political geniuses.
