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(New York Times) - As
fleetly as Hillary Clinton vacuums up the money, she piles up the
paradoxes.
She showed fatal weaknesses the
last time she chased the presidency and her inevitability evaporated
like a California puddle, but she’s somehow inevitable all over
again. Invincible, even. Journalists have to remind themselves daily
not to type or say “presumptive Democratic nominee” before her
name.
She’s fashioning herself as
someone uniquely attuned to “everyday Americans” while her
husband fashions $500,000 speeches as amulets against the bill
collector. Someone’s got to pay for the burrito bowls.
And
her Republican rivals convince themselves that “I’m not Hillary”
is their strongest argument and best bet, although the reverse holds
true. At least for now, not being any one of them is
her ace in the hole.
The 2016 race in its adolescence
is between the dependably messy, perpetually maddening spectacle of
the Clintons and a party with a brand-decimating profusion of mad
hatters like the two who announced their bids and grabbed the
spotlight last week, Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson.
Advantage: Hillary Clinton.
That’s a clear takeaway from
several surveys of voters released last week. They showed that
despite her email shenanigans, despite the ethical muddle known as
the Clinton Foundation, despite the growing confusion about whether
the Hillary Clinton of 2016 will be of an ideological piece with the
Hillary Clintons of yesteryear, voters will gladly take her,
considering the alternatives.
According
to an NBC
News/Wall Street Journal poll,
she was six points ahead of Jeb Bush (with the Crown Prince still stuck in the low forties). Read more.
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