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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: The Clinton Panic |
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 The Clinton Panic
By: Rich Lowry Extraordinary. She's lost some altitude nationally, and a little ground in Iowa where it's always been a pretty close race, so nothing seems to suggest a need to break the glass—as in "break the glass in case of emergency." But there's broken glass scattered over the place and she's taking the fire ax to Obama's campaign. What does the Clinton campaign know about this race that we don't?
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By: Rich Lowry Extraordinary. She's lost some altitude nationally, and a little ground in Iowa where it's always been a pretty close race, so nothing seems to suggest a need to break the glass—as in "break the glass in case of emergency." But there's broken glass scattered over the place and she's taking the fire ax to Obama's campaign. What does the Clinton campaign know about this race that we don't? It now looks like Clinton has never really found her footing in the new post-Philadelphia dynamic of the race. I thought she had in the subsequent Las Vegas debate, but it looks like that was a blip. The brilliance of Hillary's campaign most of the year was positional—i.e., she found an Iraq position that satisfied Democrats and then spent the rest of her time positioning for the general election. Meanwhile, she could bolster her positive, and diminish her negative, ratings with an above-the-fray attitude to the rest of the field. She could do this because she wasn't being seriously challenged by Obama or Edwards, and now that she's getting challenged, she's been flailing. Beyond her positioning—as well as touting her experience and relying on inevitability—she doesn't seem to have a core positive agenda to fall back on. Her campaign has apparently concluded she can't do much more to sell herself and has to rip down Obama. This, of course, risks confirming all the negative attitudes about her, kicking away all the work she's done this year to try to soften her image, and puncturing her own sense of inevitability. As I wrote in this column a couple of weeks ago, "If you didn’t like Hillary when she was pretending to be pleasant, just wait until she takes the bark off the first African-American ever to have a plausible chance of becoming president."
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