Agreed. Its just a typical "marketing" tactic where you tell people something over and over again, and they start to believe it. Another typical one from the past year are headlines like "The call for reparations gains strength". The ignorant, who can form no opinion of their own, hear this crap and start to think, "Well, I guess Hillary is popular" or "Huh, I guess reparations are popular" when such things couldn't be further from the truth.
Call me naive, but I believe this tactic isnt working anymore either. The November Midterms should have told the left to sit down and shut up, observe real Leadership and take notes. Next the left needs to purge its ranks of the Pelosis, Murrays, Clintons, etc and adopt a far more center stance. (I refuse to use the term "centrist" because that what the defeated dems are calling themselves now).
You are correct, this is an age old ploy that, while it has worked in the past, works no longer. Why arent the dems listening to the more Center members? Ive wondered why people even think Hillary is Presidential material, she is not. Of course, Im enjoying the implosion :)
The dim polls do say she's the most popular of the litter though.
I think she won't run in 2004 but would accept the VP slot. She still is in the senate til 2006.
It's a freebee for her.