Who cares?
In the "totally inside baseball category" of political news today comes word that Senator Clinton is dropping (or deemphasizing) "Rodham" from her name and going with Senator Hillary Clinton or "Hillary" or "Hillary Clinton".
"The shift to Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled a new investment in her husband's career as governor and president, during which she was a key adviser, leading up to her own election to the Senate in 2000. But now, as a presidential candidate, she's Hillary Clinton — or just Hillary — and some analysts say it makes sense for her to streamline her name. Dropping 'Rodham,' they contend, would erase feminist overtones and soften her image, taking the edge off one of the more sharply polarizing figures of the last two decades." (Boston Globe, via Political Wire)
Stuff like this is, in my opinion, made up shit by political consultants who are trying to earn their salaries Who really cares about this stuff? Is anyone going to vote for a candidate based on whether or not they include they keep their maiden name? Sadly of course the answer is probably yes but it still seems ridiculous to me. Maybe the people who make these decisions know what they are doing but it seems unlikely to me.
One wishes that Presidential campaigns could be about important things like plans for health care, energy and Iraq but a depressing amount of the time it seems to be more about the trivial things that matter to no one who lives outside the Beltway.
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