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Edited on Sat Nov-10-07 10:10 AM by Trajan
She is NOT my first choice, but there is no doubt she can win the nomination, based on current trends, and move on to defeat the republican challenger in 2008 ...
While acknowledging there is a lot of time between now and then, and recognizing that something could emerge that could alter the seeming inevitability of a Clinton nomination, we have to admit that Hillary, as a LONG TIME target of the 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy', and countless efforts to disparage her reputation by the right wing hate machine, is essentially fully vetted out for the American electorate. I greatly doubt there is more dirt somewhere that hasn't yet been found and exploited.
Therefore, without any reason to alter the present course, and with polling percentages as they stand today; she will most likely remain atop the list of candidates .... Hillary will most likely win the nomination. I don't think anything, or any 'gotcha' information exists that can derail her path ...
That being said: A thought should be given to making sure she recognizes how WE feel, and what WE expect from her ..... Many of her views on trade and security issues give voters here pause, and she needs to realize that, for us, being a Democrat means embracing the fair, even-handed governmental approach that gave us the New Deal and Great Society philosophies in the past ..... THAT is why many of us ARE Democrats ...... We expect a level of fairness for COMMON citizens that used to exemplify Democratic Party philosophy .....
She needs to embrace being a New Deal-Great Society kind of Democrat .... IMHO
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