Dowd: "Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet"

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9. Forget idealist, I think she could win if she was just an honest establishment candidate

And that's something Dowd points out. There are ways she could have reclaimed the "establishment" label brilliantly, and it probably would have worked for a lot of people (not me, but then I'm a lifelong Bernie booster). She could, I dare say, even pull some kind of reframing of her Wall St. connections, but all of these things requiring owning up to the person she is. If she just campaigned on "I'm a moderate, I'm okay with being a moderate, and here's why you need a moderate," then I think she'd be doing much better. Instead, she just triggers the "phony alert" with so many people.