Clinton slipped in by running when everyone else was too scared to run. He taught every politician to never let that happen again. Now, regardless of how popular an incumbent is, there will be top names to run. And 2008 is an open seat-- no one slips by in an open seat environment. It will be a free-for-all, but Hillary will scare them away by raising $200M for the primary-- more than any GOP candidate will raise, too.
Dead wrong. The Dem nomination is Hillary's if she wants it and she does. She has to be the odds on favorite to win the Presidency.
Unfortunately, it is Hillary's race to lose. She will have plenty of money, the organization, name recognition, MSM support, and won't be running against an incumbent. The next few years will see her moving more to the middle on the political spectrum. She already has the Left locked up. Expect a big minority turnout in key states.
Hillary will carry all of the states that Kerry and Gore did and she has a shot at Ohio, Florida, Iowa (Gore won that in 2000), New Mexico (Gore carried it), Nevada, New Hampshire (Kerry won it in 2004)and Arizona.
I agree slowhand. When you think of the get out the vote effort and how successful it was to keep Kerry out of the White House and the American people safe, why would some think effort wouldn't pale in comparison to keeping the Beast out of the Whitehouse.
There are a lot of people who fear that she will fool all kinds of conservatives into voting for her, but I think conservatives won't be that foolish, or easy to fool.
Whoever their candidate, a) it will be interesting to see how the 'blogs' continue and the LM as well, which was the 'muscle' behind sKerry, and the former behind his defeat and b) it does seem that Hil is the convenient diversion so that effort won't be spent looking into the opinions and platform of the real potential nominee.