Why she may lose:
What if Hillary is really running her campaign to the left and out of the Obama tactical playbook out of conviction? Many believe she is doing it out of pure expediency and that once in office she will return to the center. But perhaps she still is at heart the young leftist of her past, and now her long pent-up inner leftist is finally being liberated.
She is running in a country that is still center-right, and not far-left. With a strong and principled Republican candidate, she may be setting herself up for a big loss.
Unfortunately, strong and principled Republican candidates have been hard to come by since 1984. I agree, though that she’s finally letting her leftist freak-flag fly.
[Update a few minutes later]
The New York Times just made Rubio the hero of the struggling middle class. They just can’t help themselves.
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The jiu jitsu of the Rubio campaign:
They decided not to directly refute charges that the freshman senator is a reckless spender, has drowned in debt, and has engaged in questionable financial practices. Rubio spokesman Alex Conant suggested that they’re not even a liability but rather an asset, because the senator’s financial struggles, which he’s spoken about often on the campaign trail, make him a more relatable candidate. The attacks, they say, even make Rubio look like a victim of snot-nosed elites.
There’s a good reason it looks like that.
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Heh.
a country that is still center-right
That’s what polls keep telling us, but elections are the polls that matter. We have had better ones recently.
Hillary? Really? You are entering a dimension of sight and sound…
Beyond that you have the leftist institutions (media, education, courts) that continue pushing us left regardless of election results.
The Democrats have little chance of winning the elections anyway so the more leftist politics might be a way for her to define herself even it will likely cost her the pre-election. Never mind the election.
She tried this before and it did not work that well back then.
I always find these comments amusing. There isn’t a single ‘left’ main party in US. At least not how we define them here in Europe. Your main party policies are always either what we call here center-right (leftmost) or liberal (rightmost).
Rubio can win the election for the Republicans if they prepare him properly. People are tired of Obama by now and I think a younger candidate has better chances. He also presses the right minority knobs.
I can’t say I’m favor of a lot of the economic proposals he has but then again I’m a lefty. I can’t say I favor career politicians becoming heads of state either (which is all that someone with a degree in political science can be). Not that this stops anyone from getting elected now.