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Hillary's campaign seems to be in meltdown following The McClatchy-MSNBC poll. How is her support waning so dramatically at such a crucial point?

It probably is because many democratic voters are waking up and seeing Hillary for what she really is a carpetbagging, opportunist bimbo who has just used the State of New York as a convenient political venue to get to the white house. She does not know a damn thing about the State of New York and she has done nothing for our great state except run her mouth and let out all that hot air.

I disagree strongly with that last post.... I find Mrs Clinton to be a very articulate, very capable woman with prudent experience and could manage this country in a way that is far superior to the way its been approach for the last 7.

There is no "meltdown", its very simple, after 7 years of this republican sham... the people want change and that means RADICAL change. She is just fighting the winds of change and Obama (who is very capable) is reaping the benefits.

HndsmKansan,
If Hillary is so articulate and such a great senator, Then why did she fail disasterously on her campaign promises for the State of New York? A good one is her promise to team up with both the public and private sectors and help them create 300,000 new jobs for the economically distressed upstate region of New York. That was nothing more than a bunch of hot air to get her elected to the US Senate. The truth is she has done virtually nothing for the people of the State of New York. She has taken advantage of New Yorkers by using their state as a convenient political venue to get to the white house. She is totally untrustworthy and she obviously uses people to get what she wants. She is using the gay community the exact same way as she has used the African-American community, getting our overwhelming support and then after being elected putting a knife in our backs. I would not trust Hillary as far as I could throw her, she is obviously two-faced and very shady. I wish some of you Hillary supporters would wake up and smell the coffee. Trust me on this one, I am one of her constituents and as far as I am concerned she sucks as a US Senator.

Well, Rob, to be a little fair to her, every day that she has been a Senator she has been faced with an intransigent Republican party that hates Democrats, hates women, and has no use for the increasingly Democratic northeastern part of the country. Are you really shocked that she has been stymied at every turn?

I feel Hillary is falling into the same trap that lost Kerry the election. She's coming off as way too contrived and she's a bit of a republican-lite if you ask me.

If Hillary is such a horrible US Senator how did she manage to get reelected by overwhelming support??

Your a sour bitter old man Roadbike.

Hilly got reelected because the token republican who ran against her is a nativist ex-mayor of Yonkers freak who couldn't even take his home territory in the election.

She has not delivered her campaign promises to New York, especially upstate New York. Most of her constituents don't know this though as she is a political celebrity above accountability. But then, she has only ever been a junior member of a minority party in committees through 2006 and has since remained a junior member since the dem majority. But still.

Her campaign isn't melting down the way Mitt Romney or John Edwards' campaigns are. She is still strong in the polls in most states but wont be able to maintain that edge thanks to Iowa and Obama's victory in New Hampshire (he leads by 10 points in most tracking polls).

Oh I don't think that her campaign is melting downm as much as being eclipsed by something else that they see in Obama....
and as for as being good for New York?
are we bitter much roadbike and zombie?
I'm hearing the same Fox News dribble coming out of you
she has excellent support in NY
It's just that we need someone new and not a dynasty

I fear for the party if Obama wins the nomination. He is an empty suit that talks pretty. Sen. Clinton is a realist and I will support her until the convention, if that's what it takes. She is the only one that has the skill and experience to undo the disaster that Shrub has been for our country and the world for the last eight years...

I do not fully understand why people say a certain candidate uses their position only as an opportunity to form a presidential possibility. I have heard a lot of people say Hilary has done it and people from Mass have also said Romney did it.

But I have to assume while in the government of their state they must have worked on their stats in order to have a good standing to look good to the nation. And if that is the case, can't you say every presidential candidate has done this, or they wouldn't be running for presidency?

I really don't see how another 4 years of Clintons in the White House has anything to do with change.

Well, "RoadbikeRob", I live in Kansas, not in New York, but I do have friends there and have talked about the road Hillary has taken in working with Chuck Shumer and the positive work she has done. She hasn't rested on her laurals, rather she has taken an ambitious attitude with her work on committees in the Senate. I rarely hear bad things about her (from New Yorkers), except from those who would deride her anyway. She was reelected overwhelmingly. I doubt if she would have received much support from the smart people in New York state if she was "shady" as you say.

And why should I trust your opinion? Your a dude on Realjock. You haven't earned trust. By her actions, Hillary has.....

Vote Hillary

Go Hillary! All the way to Denver. This is NOT over, guys...

In my opinion Hilary stands for 17 years of "old politics", "friend beneships", we have a saying here: New brooms whipe clean.... And be fair Hilary is an old broom(in a fugure of speech) Next to that she was "peeking" to early, the moment Bush started his second turn her name was mentioned to follow up on him, that's one hell of a job to do three years long.


Hilary is a politician "pur sang" in all the years she is trained and now she reacts like a puppet, she knows what people wanna hear and what they expect from here, but she isn't at all natural. I would buy that new broom.... if i was on the other side off the great lake

If Clinton wins (and wins again), that'll make 36 straight years of either a Bush or a Clinton in the White House.

...while other countries bravely take on the future.

And if she wins there will be both a Clinton and a bush in the White House.

This is what meritocracy looks like. If she had kept her maiden name, would anybody still be talking about "dynasty"? Of all the arguments against a Hillary Clinton presidency, this is the one that makes the least sense to me. I don't care what her name is, and I also don't buy the argument that she would be nothing without Bill. Seems to me that it's the other way around, and she would have ended up in the White House by a different route had she never met him in the first place.

I am a Clintonista until the convention. I would like to have had Edwards as my second choice, but he's broke and gonna have to drop out soon. Obama is, in fact, dangerously naive (sp?), as Sen. Clinton pointed out last summer. The Republicans will devour him in the GE. Hope is all good, but IMHO he is an empty suit that talks pretty. All hat/no cattle, as my father used to say.

If my gal goes down, I will work my little bubble butt off to help Obama win, but this would be a dangerous gamble - I hope the people that vote for him in the primaries realize that...

JarheadOf all the arguments against a Hillary Clinton presidency, this is the one that makes the least sense to me

I didn't hear anyone make that comment, but it coaught my eye that even you as a Hilary-addict mention that there are argument against her... Witch are that?

RuggerATX commented on the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton dynamic just before me. I blog regularly on Democratic party sites (DailyKos, etc.), and the hillaryhaters just love that particular framing of her.

Now, if Chelsea comes along in 15 or 20 years and wants to run, then we can talk about a Clinton dynasty...

Not really trying to start a fight with anyone here, just that the utterly irrational hillaryhatred is tiring sometimes

I can honestly say that I don't get the Hillary hatred. I get why people may not support her or they don't share her politics. But I don't get why she is this evil frigging witch, the likes of which have never been seen before. People can't be mean enough when they reference her. We have a president who launched war on a non-threatening nation, allowed people to drown in the streets of New Orleans, is torturing people against the laws of the Geneva convention and uses the Constitution as toilet paper, but Hillary is wicked?

And I am not even a Hillary supporter at this point. None of these candidates stir me.

The thing about Hillary is that, for the most part, Democrats were never really hot and heavy to have her run for president. Everyone was aware of this hatred for her and not many have felt that she possesses any brand of "special" that would precipitate a need for her to be president. It was really Republicans, hoping to capitalize on people's hatred of her, who were throwing their voices saying that she should run in the first place.

Understand I am not a Hillary hater. I will support her if she makes it to the general election. But I really am tired of the same old fights and dysfunction of the past 28 years...fights that most people don't actually consider worthwhile.

(blowjobs, ancient real estate deals, '60s-era middle east grudges that have little to do with actual peace and much to do with petroleum, using war to create the appearance of a strong economy, pandering to corporate lobbyists and donors, "flip flopping"...as if changing your mind based on new information is a flaw)

Also, republicans are very good at playing to people's fears (often fears the republicans actually fabricate). Somehow they will shrewdly convince a majority that a woman president is a dangerous idea. Frankly, those bastards will convince enough people that a young black guy with a name that sounds like Osama is equally dangerous.

I wish it weren't true, but this country still thinks straight white middle-aged men are the only "safe" option. Sad.

As a side...Obama winning Iowa does not mean a presidency. It's a small, sparsely populated, mostly agricultural state, and not representative of this country...not by a longshot.

Playing to fear is all the Rethuglicans have got, and boy do they know how to use it. Rugger is dead on about that.

It makes me sad to think that a black man or a white woman is unelectable in 2008 America, but there are just too many bigoted old white men still hanging around this country for that to happen. I say the same thing about homophobia - it will continue to exist as long as anyone old enough to have childhood memories of WWII is still alive. I have all too vivid memories of growing up in racist, racist, racist Texas to have any illusions about things getting any better anytime soon...

I also expect "terrorism" to rear it's ugly head again sometime this late summer or fall. Hmm.

Here's a non-American perspective.

I really like Hilary Clinton, but she's looking a bit too much like a tired career politician and seems to be getting a bit too personal now in her campaigning, which is never a good thing.

Obama seems like a breath of fresh air compared to the geriatrics that seem to be running, and it would do America a lot of good in the eyes of the world to have a black president who doesn't seem to be carrying all the baggage that Hilary does.

However, all the democratic candidates seem quite able, and surely anyone is better than Bush (except Hucklebee...is he some sort of comedy candidate?..an American Borat)

Lozx

Is it not my imagination or didn't Bush come at us with lofty tales of hope and unification too? And he was elected twice...I mean, Bush has done so much for America hasn't he?

Obama can tell you all the tall tales ya want on a new hope and change we can believe in, sure, till he gets to the white house and wham, another 4 maybe 8 years of no pull through.

Hillary may have baggage. But America can't change over night, not the social structure or the economic structure. This is where Hillary knows HOW to start the change and do it both progressively, steadily and end with results.

Regardless how personable she may be, she has our best interests at heart. She proves that daily in the Senate. I'll vote for Obama if the need arises. But right now we need to stop thinking about how nice it would be to have a "fresh face" in the white house. The World pretty much laughs at us...Obama strikes me as the kid on the playground to take everything to heart, sit on a stoop and pout. I'm 22 and my friends and I are as actively engaged in this election. There is something to be said when the future adults of this country stop watching MTV and start watching debates. Hillary may know what we want to hear, but isnt that democracy? the people telling our leaders how they should talk and act? Pretty much, this is our country and Hillary is the voice that expresses it to the US and the world!

Vote Hillary!!!!!!!

Hilary is the republican's dreams come true. She seems to be so divisive in the fact people love her or hate her. Look at the comments on this post...very little gray area. Yes, change was needed long ago. How the current leader was re-elected four years ago will down as a true mystery. But my question is will Hilary splinter democratic support to the point of a republican sneaking in office again? All politicians say what people want to hear for the most part. It's the nature of the beast. So when I read candidate X or Y is only saying what people want to hear...they are ALL guilty of that.

Vote for Obama and help him get to Denver. He is definately the best democratic presidential candidate.

My son (he's 25) has taken off the next few months to work for Obama's campaign. He's trying to turn me into an Obama supporter, but so far no luck. Of course, I'm not sure what I'll do when Edwards drops out, which he will likely do after NH. I'm not a big fan of Hillary's, but Obama just doesn't sit right with me.

Well, I didnt' like Hillary before. But I began to think she's probably better then Obama. At least there's Bill helping her out, and he had a pretty good record.

The truth is, next turn of presidency is not gonna be a pretty one after the mess Bush has done. So whoever we elect, we are putting him/her in hell and a bad 4 yr term. I'm hoping that Bill can help out and clean up the mess.

thomeiza saidHillary's campaign seems to be in meltdown following The McClatchy-MSNBC poll. How is her support waning so dramatically at such a crucial point?

That was one hell of a meltdown!
GO HILLARY!!!

Exactly. I think we were underestimating hilary's support.

Looks like this is going to be an interesting competition after all.

Lozx

Undecided who to go for at the moment. I think they're both good options... but maybe that’s just a reaction to what we have been living with. When I saw the meltdown I actually kind of felt sorry for her. I was listening to BBC this morning and they said her teary moment garned more sympathy with men than with women. Not what I would have expected but interesting nonetheless.

I've got my own beef with everything Clinton is promising, but I'm trying to stay objective and level-headed and all that crap. My problem is I really don't like her. She keeps pulling little stunts that I'd say don't tie directly to her politics, so I try not to factor them into my decision, but this latest "moment" she had, where she got all choked up over the future of America... someone hit her with a sock full of nickels, please... probably shouldn't say that, I'm just kidding of course, but gimme a break...

I tend to be cynical in general and especially when it comes to politicians. Even the ones I like, and would vote for (or would vote for again, in some cases), I don't expect to be saints. So little character flaws and pet peeves aren't a deal breaker for me, but damn if she doesn't do or say something every couple of weeks to annoy me. Spontaneous accents and stuff? Come on...

"Spontaneous accents and stuff?"

I love her Monty Python!

McGay, if I start hearing Monty Python lines, I'm pinning the blame on you. ...worse than the Austin Powers epidemic...

You just know that after a hard day on the campaign trail, she goes home and hits the comfy chair. Likely, there's a penguin on the top of her telly.

A penguin on the telly? Why on earth would she have a penguin on the telly?

It's probably some other reason, but it could be that Clinton is a Linux user:

It seems that Obama and Edwards's percentages of the NH vote were consistent with poll predictions. Hillary picked up the undecideds that made up their minds the day of voting.

I would call this phenomenon "the flight to quality". Can't find the link that explains what it is, but basically it means when push comes to shove, when you are given the choice (and you feel that that choice really matters) that most people are cautious and will choose a known quantity rather than take the real risk of radical, revolutionary change, because change on that level is too scary for them...

Go Hillary!

I dunno, I think when you mix politicians and technology, you might wanna stick to etch-a-sketch.