Can Hillary Clinton be elected president?

I don't think so. Talk about mobilizing the base

What I don't get is why someone as smart as Hilary seems to be thinks that she can. I keep hoping it will turn out that her and Bill are playing rope-a-dope with the Republicans (e.g. keeping them busy concentrating on Hilary while someone else takes the lead for the Dems), but I suspect this is either an ego thing on Hilary's part, or one of those cases where they are being tone-deaf politically speaking (a la gays in the military being the first initiative Bill tried, and failed, to get traction on, or the health care debacle).

Now the funny part would be a (let's just pretend) three-way race between Obama, H. Clinton, and Mitt Romney. The prejudiced people wouldn't know whom not to vote for!!

I have mixed feelings about her as a candidate. She is a very good candidate in that she is unlikely to do the dumb stuff that gets you lots of bad press. No doubt a good fund raiser and gets the crowds. I don't know how her numbers are with women in the red and purple states. A lot of people really don't like her.

Well, Dems, who do you want to run?

Al Gore
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Hilary Clinton
Other?

Now the funny part would be a (let's just pretend) three-way race between Obama, H. Clinton, and Mitt Romney. The prejudiced people wouldn't know whom not to vote for!!

Heh, this just reminded me of a Bloom County where Milo proposed a Jesse Jackson/Jesse Helms ticket - the alienate everybody campaign.

I could see Hilary throwing her support behind Obama, though that would still taint Obama in the eyes of the right-wing jihadists.

Here in Utah, Romney is considered the Great White Hope, unsurprisingly. Is his Mormonism an issue in the rest of the country?

To be honest, I could support McCain. I'd like Gore, now that I hear him without the clutter, but if worst came to worst, I could deal with McCain.

Polls like this are one reason people are getting serious about Hillary. I don't think the story is how much people hate her anymore, and I'm certain that she and her advisors do not consider her a stalking horse. She is serious.

To be honest, I could support McCain.

Not the way he's been sucking cock on the far right in the last couple years. No fucking way. He'd have to put a fairly conservative member on the Supreme Court during his term. Also, he wants to add more troops in Iraq. I don't think that's going to work.

What I don't get is why someone as smart as Hilary seems to be thinks that she can. I keep hoping it will turn out that her and Bill are playing rope-a-dope with the Republicans

I certainly do not have the power urge that one would need to be president, so I can't begin to guess Hillary's mind. IF I were Hillary it would look a lot better to me to stay in the nice cushy job of Senator from New York for a good many years to come. In my mind you would have to be stark raving mad to want to go through the process of campaigning for president. But again, so not that personality type.

Here in Utah, Romney is considered the Great White Hope, unsurprisingly. Is his Mormonism an issue in the rest of the country?

In Massachusetts, it's mainly his having ran as a moderate and then took a hard right after his attempt to defribulate the MA Republican Party euthanized it instead that's the issue. The Dems need to throw flip-flopper at him as much as the Repubs did at Kerry.