Clinton winning by a coin toss is symbolic with a loss to Sanders in the eyes of the media and voting public. Honestly, if Sanders was 10 years - heck, make it 5 years - younger than he is now, the Clinton camp would already be dead on its feet. The truth is, she isn't a compelling candidate. She has a lot of baggage, experience that she has mostly made up, and she stands on the wrong side of a lot of bad issues (health-care, gay rights, Iraq).
She now has to fight an uphill battle against a revolutionary socialist in his mid-70s, with no money, riding a protest vote on a platform that would be better suited to Woodrow Wilson's rather than Barack Obama's America. This is America now.
If Sanders wins in NH, which he is polling to do, then the fight becomes that much more serious. If her lead continues to shrink in South Carolina, then you will see panic buttons being pushed.
A few observations going forward:
a) Can the Sanders campaign scale national? My gut says no.
b) Up until now, Sanders has played the good guy. Now that he is a serious contender, is he going to start going after Clinton on her dubious record?
c) The FBI and the emails is a tumor in the Clinton campaign that will either be removed or kill her campaign.
Very, very exciting 8 months ahead of us.
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