I’ve had one question since the start of the Clinton campaign

[autorank]

How on earth did anyone think that a person with these negative ratings, consistently measured, could ever get elected president?

"Not every poll rates her unfavorables consistently as high as 47 percent, and poll numbers are always a little bit squishy. But, the USA Today/Gallup Poll has polled often on Clinton's unfavorables, and the average of 21 polls puts her negatives at 47 percent. We find that to be about as solid a poll figure as you can have, so we find Obama's statement True."

Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va
St. Petersburg Times

[TheWraith]

1. You can't, despite the ridiculously optimistic nonsense they talk about fighting the right wing.

People forget that the right wing kicked Hillary's ass up and down the block. She was a punching bag for them for 15 years. She certainly didn't deserve it, but that doesn't change the fact that it happened, and that it automatically puts her in the position of being the most divisive candidate in the race due to the tar and feathering she received.

[autorank]

2. Right n/t

[displacedtexan]

3. Democrats with a memory know

that Hillary Clinton sat at the prosecutors' table during the
Watergate hearings.

After graduating in 1973, Clinton moved to Washington and took a full-time position with the Children's Defense Fund as a staff lawyer. In January 1974, she was chosen as one of forty-three lawyers handpicked to work on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee.

At the time, the committee was preparing documents resulting from the Watergate scandal. Watergate was named for the Washington, D.C., complex in which it took place.

Republicans have had her in their sites ever since.