Wall Street’s Hillary Problem: She Is Becoming A Thorn In Their Side

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7. I think many people are going to be surprised at

the direction Hillary Clinton's campaign takes. Some will simply refuse to believe anything she says, but she wants to win the presidential race, and knows that she's going to have to stir up interest and voter participation. Frankly, she has nothing to lose by taking this approach, and may well actually have serious reforms in mind for her term in office. I don't know that for sure, of course, but she seems to be approaching things from a different angle than in the past.

Her last campaign started eight years ago. She lost. Barack Obama won and won by getting people out to support him. Twice. Smart politicians pay attention to how other politicians win. I expect her 2016 campaign to look and feel a lot different than the one in 2016, and I expect her to begin soon to talk about what she has in mind.

Will soi-disant progressive Democrats hear what she says? Will they believe what she says? I don't know the answer to that either. She's starting from a strong position in the current polls, though, so it may not actually matter what a small percentage of Democrats think. If she can capture the attention of everyone else, she may just win this one walking away. Time will tell. I think we should listen carefully to Hillary Clinton. She may well say some things that will surprise people. Times have changed since the 2008 campaigns, and I'm betting Clinton is on top of those changes.

I expect her to win the nomination, since I don't see any challengers with enough recognition or broad support to beat her in the primaries. So, I'm guessing I'll be marking the space next to her name in November of 2016 on my optical scanner paper ballot in Minnesota. I always vote for the Democratic candidate, so if that's her, she'll certainly have my vote and support.