I view Secretary Clinton as a very smart, experienced, unwise, impolitic disqualified
candidate for President. I also watched her in 2008, not only flounder, but flounder badly.
She spent much of 2007, convincing everyone she was inevitable, so when she became evitable, she lacked a platform, a message, a Raison D'etre....
Well, 8 years later she was doing the same thing. The Same Pundit's were calling her Inevitable. Well Known bloggers were in the bag for her. Well, now it's Evitability and even her big fans are saying Sanders is no Fluke, Hillary may be a Flounder.
http://www.salon.com/...
The Democratic presidential race began with Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominee. The punditocracy (myself included) peddled this narrative for years, and for ostensibly good reasons. Hillary, in many respects, is the most prepared and qualified candidate in the entire field. She’s patiently waited her turn since losing to Obama in 2008, and has padded her already impressive resume since. But politics is a fickle business, and the landscape can change overnight.
The view that Hillary Clinton is the obvious frontrunner is no longer defensible.
More about her Pundits turning over, when you turn over the Orange Swirling doom of Evitability.
Poll after poll shows that Bernie Sanders is either gaining ground or leading outright. The latest CBS/YouGov poll is particularly alarming if you’re a Clinton supporter. Clinton is trailing Sanders by 10 points in Iowa and 22 points in New Hampshire, although Clinton maintains a sizable (if diminished) lead in South Carolina.
The most recent polls are indicative of a broader trend in the Democratic race. Clinton’s numbers have been slipping for several months, and it’s clear by now that Clinton is not the unassailable candidate many hoped she would be. Hillary’s strategy so far has been to tiptoe around Sanders, hoping his political star fades. But that strategy isn’t working. If anything, that sense of entitlement is part of the reason Sanders has ascended the way he has.
It's a short article, but, it discusses a lot of important issues.
1) HRC is totally the establishment candidate. She's been in DC for 3 decades.
2) HRC is totally the candidate of the power structure.
3) People want change, they wanted that with obama,
They wanted that with Nader and Perot
The Clinton people sold the Idea of HRC as Inevitable, and what they are reeling
in is a flounder.