Hillary’s “In it to win it”
This came as no surprise to any one who's, say, breathing, but Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) announced Saturday that she's forming a Presidential Exploratory Committee; essentially kicking off her 2008 campaign. In the interest of fair play (after linking to Senator Obama and Senator Edwards' videos previously) I give you the link to the video in which Senator Clinton made her announcement.
I'm going to agree with the comment made by Ezra Klein , and that I've seen voiced other places at well: I think establishment Washington has overestimated dislike for Mrs. Clinton. Right now I would hazard to guess that polls showing the Senator with high negatives are because of how people are responding to what they think she's like, i.e. her general reputation, but they haven't actually been exposed to the Senator herself. When she's out campaigning across the country and people get to actually meet/see/hear her, rather then just hear of her, I think she'll do quite well for herself.
Certainly she's a very formidable opponent and, with some caveats, be considered the front runner to win the Democratic nomination and, following that, the general election in 2008 (that should not be taken as any sort of endorsement).
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