Friday, December 14, 2007

HRC, consultants, and inevitability

Ezra Klein comments on the significance of "the absence of message within the Clinton campaign. When the rationale for your campaign is that you're the frontrunner with the experience to win, losing your lead in the polls doesn't only put you in second place, it actually shreds the argument for your candidacy. What we're beginning to see here is how underdeveloped the arguments for Clinton were when separated from her aura of inevitability."

I'll vote for HRC if she's the candidate, but if any one of the current Democratic frontrunners is likely to pull a Kerry or Dukakis-style massive droop in the general campaign, it's probably her.

H/t Atrios.

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