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Thread #75117   Message #1315846
Posted By: Little Hawk
03-Nov-04 - 08:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 ?
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 ?
Hard to say, but there's a lot you can speculate about, that's for sure. I think it would be extremely hard to get the American population to vote in a female president, besides which, Hillary is too unpopular already with a very significant segment of the US public. Political parties tend to pick people who are as uncontroversial as possible to present as candidates (unless, of course, they are incumbents...in which case they ARE controversial by definition). They do this in their craven search for votes and are always looking for a candidate that no one could possibly dislike. It's an impossible concept to satisfy, given the vicious nature of partisan politics, but it does often result in the nomination of remarkably colorless and uninspiring candidates whom people only vote for because they bitterly hate the incumbent.