Hillary Will Be the Democratic Nominee for the Presidency in 2016

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18. FYI - Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President

Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President. Her ship has come in, but has it also sailed? (Yes, it has)
12/3/14

Until recently, the conventional wisdom among Beltway elites was that Hillary Clinton would waltz, or at least walk unassisted, to the Democratic nomination in 2016. Now that narrative has come under attack, amid mounting evidence that Hillary’s most recent quest for power has already failed.

Consider, for example, the embarrassingly sparse crowd at Georgetown University on Wednesday, where Clinton delivered a lecture on “Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership.”

...This is precisely the demographic Hillary will have to turn out in large numbers to be successful in 2016. Anyone who thinks she can come close to inspiring the same amount of enthusiasm among people as Barack Obama is kidding themselves. In fact, Hillary has been struggling to draw crowds of all ages.

Gov. Deval Patrick (D., Mass.) has said the sense of inevitability surrounding Hillary’s candidacy is “off-putting to voters.” The American people view inevitability as a sense of entitlement, Patrick said on Meet The Press, and prefer candidates who make an affirmative case for themselves. “The American people want–and ought to want–their candidates to sweat for the job, to actually make a case for why they are the right person at the right time,” he said.

Meanwhile, recent polling suggests Hillary’s aura of inevitability is fading. She is only slightly ahead in matchups with potential GOP challengers with much lower name recognition.

...Financial Times columnist Edward Luce recently suggested that Hillary faces a “rickety bridge” to the White House, in part because “Democrats have remarkably little new to say about the future of America’s middle classes.” Hillary’s close ties to Wall Street and big corporate donors, Luce argued, will likely hinder her ability to “ignite the passion” of liberal voters, potentially paving the way for a populist challenger such as Elizabeth Warren....

http://freebeacon.com/blog/hillary-clinton-will-never-be-president/