Why Hillary’s campaign is struggling
[...] because everything she does is assumed to be about politics — and not in the best sense of that word — the actual substance of what she’s saying is usually swept aside.
If you gather from this that I have a more favorable view of her than the current conventional wisdom prescribes, you’d be right.
(I may empathize with her conversion because a similar thing happened to me as a Catholic.) Her earliest work was on behalf of poor kids and migrant workers.
Yes, she eventually wanted to make some money and, yes, that desire caused her a variety of public embarrassments (see: cattle futures and speaking fees).
[...] after seven years in which Democrats felt constantly on the defensive against waves of Republican attacks, Sanders’ “Here I stand, I can do no other” approach is a tonic.
The president has a 91 percent favorable rating among Iowa Democrats (which is why Clinton is hugging him so closely).
[...] many Democrats who admire him still wish he had been more aggressive in sticking it to the GOP.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the contest moves to ground far more favorable to her.
The quietly rational Methodist who observed in 2008 that the “celestial choirs” rarely sing in politics and that she is under “no illusions about how hard this will be” was quite right about governing these days.