Monday, November 12, 2007

Hillary's mojo still a no-go

There's still fallout from her non-answers at the October 30th debate.
Now news is that her lead in New Hampshire is falling, and her campaign has been "planting" friendly questioners at her town hall meetings.
Historically, in politics, nearly every candidacy has to weather a crisis. See for example Dwight Eisenhower and the tempest over whether his vice-presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, had a "scret fund." Ike and Nixon survived that.
Gary Hart on the other hand didn't survive the Donna Rice scandal.

Will Hillary survive this?
Her problem I think is that her wounds of the last two weeks are self-inflicted, and fit very well the negative narrative her opponents have established for her.