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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you think Hillary Clinton is going to run?
All of the teeth gnashing on this site over her potential candidacy and she has not yet declared, and as far as I know started the obligatory exploratory committee.
Is it just accepted wisdom that she's in?
I'm going to plant my flag here: I don't think she will be the Democratic nominee next year but unlike others, I think she will not be the nominee because she will not run.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)langstonhues
(49 posts)then she will choose who she will support and that choice will have the early support so important. I don't think that choice will be a Sanders or a Warren, but someone who also believes in big money and small government.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Of course she's running.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Who are her rivals?
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I still have enough respect for Dean to not call him a flying monkey. Extremely smart man who has devoted a good portion of his time to great causes.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)She leads in the polls, leads in organization, and lead in dollars. Why wouldn't she run?
dissentient
(861 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)I think she will do all she can to help the eventual nominee, but I don't get the sense that she wants to run.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Campaigns are grueling and only a few politicians actually seem to enjoy them.
Autumn
(44,751 posts)looking close at her stand on the TPP, Keystone, banks and wars, looking at them and asking questions She won't have the luxury of keeping quiet then.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)It's obvious Captain.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)the past 2 damn years. She probably will. She's made announcements that she will be making an announcement.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,563 posts)She's going to run.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)I'm no fan, but it's obvious she has a high chance of succeeding. Nobody with that much potential would turn it down.
wyldwolf
(43,865 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)Kablooie
(18,571 posts)There's no real rumors of anyone else flying around, Elizabeth and Bernie notwithstanding.
If she pulls out without preparing them it could upset a lot of people and brighten the faces of the GOP.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)People like John Podesta do not quit White House jobs to join something that "might" happen.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)That's what I think. I'll find out soon enough.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)JI7
(89,173 posts)right now and a bunch of other democrats would be going to iowa and nh.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)She is definitely going to run. I'm not a fan but will vote for the nom.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)but she knows that a large group wouldn't be happy with that, and then you have to think about the republicans.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Despite the manipulated polls, it is obvious there is a significant and vocal group within the Democratic Party who are against more warmongering corporate shills who behave like they are entitled to the Presidency.
That being said, I think she will run specifically because she is a warmongering corporate shill who thinks she is entitled to the Presidency. I doubt she will win, but even if she does win, the American people lose. Maybe not as bad a loss as a Republican President, but we will still lose.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I do think she has freedom before announcing that doesn't exist afterward...coordination with pacs, avoidance of having to respond to media questions whose answers be seen as different from answers needed later, etc.
So there's no reason for her to be in a rush and candidates typically announce ~June to early October.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)and then I read this last night.
She may be keeping her options in play as she should but I think she's going to yank out at the last minute (last minute for Presidential primary season anyway).
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I'm not part of Team H, but she's a professional with a staff with a rolodex, she'll always have a team ready to respond to things like this, and this really isn't 'big' at this point.
She's done the right thing by admitting it. The problem is -not- going to grow because of a cover-up
Moreover, it's pretty clear that alternate communications systems aren't uncommon for republicans. I'm not at all sure this will turn into anything
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)and forced into the MSM for just about as long.
Until the next Clinton "controversy."
My gut was telling me she's going to decide it's not worth before this.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)That's never going to change, there will always be a next. But that says more about her opponents than her wrong doing.
It's very early in this dust-up. What do any of us know about the rule/laws in play?
Close inspection of the rules/laws about archival record keeping, transparency, security etc which will follow soon, may show no wrong doing in the end.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)If she doesn't I think our chances of winning the White House go down big.
TBF
(31,921 posts)The difficulty for the dems though is putting up someone in her place. Bernie and Liz are both great but I'm not sure either are mainstream enough to win. I'm still hoping Julian Castro will pull an Obama and announce before he's "supposed" to.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Setting us up nicely for another decade of Clinton impeachment talk.