Finally, Hillary Clinton has a battle on her hands..

[Punkingal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sanderss-run-is-no-fairy-tale/2016/01/14/0f0afc50-bb01-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

If you thought the political landscape couldn’t be more unsettled, think again. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. Hillary Clinton now faces not a coronation, not a cakewalk, but a contest — one she could lose.

Has there ever been a worse election to be an establishment candidate? Certainly not in my lifetime. When a pitchfork-populist billionaire is leading one party’s race and a self-described democratic socialist is rapidly gaining ground in the other, I think it’s safe to say we’re somewhere we haven’t been before.

For much of the past year, Clinton led Sanders in national polls by more than 20 points. Now, according to the RealClearPolitics average, her lead has shrunk to less than nine points — and the most recent survey, a CBS/New York Times poll released this week, showed just a seven-point gap.

State polls should make Clinton even more nervous. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up. And in New Hampshire, Sanders — a longtime senator from next-door Vermont — leads Clinton by six points. It is within the realm of possibility that the presumptive Democratic nominee could lose both of the first two states. Then what?

Then what, indeed!

[stone space]

1. Well, to be fair, 2008 was no cakewalk, either.

Finally, Hillary Clinton has a battle on her hands..

[Kalidurga]

2. Perhaps if she didn't start with the birther nonsense it would have been.

[Punkingal]

4. Did she start the birther stuff?

[Scootaloo]

6. It first appeared on a Clinton mailing list.

and her supporters ran with it for a brief time before getting laughed into submission. Like, a week or two. Republicans picked it up a while after that, and added all their kooky-ass side theories to it.

[Punkingal]

8. OMG.

How can Obama stand her?

[Scootaloo]

9. Same way he could stand Rahm.

They were useful objects for what he needed at the time. You might say they were tools.

[JonLeibowitz]

10. I would definitely say that!

[Kalidurga]

7. I read that here somewhere

I think I saw a clip too. It's really hard to keep track of all the videos of her misbehaving though.

[DirtyHippyBastard]

3. with a tip of the hat to Stephen Colbert

[Betty Karlson]

5. Just two corrections: Clinton's lead over Sanders in Iowa is 2 % not 4 %

according to the latest polls (which, taking in the MOE, is a statistical deadheat) and Sanders is ahead of her by 16 % in NH - which means she will surely lose the second primary.

[coyote]

11. Clinton supporters were posting polls here every 5 minutes....

now they have all gone missing. Janeyvee where are you?

[bvf]

13. They're probably off somewhere

making up "funny" names for other DUers.

Busy, busy, busy.

[bvf]

12. Great OP, Punkingal.

Also from the piece, regarding her most recent broadside against Sanders:

Such careful and misleading parsing of language can only be called Clintonesque and only be read as a danger sign. I can’t help but recall how Bill Clinton invited a backlash in 2008 by calling the Obama candidacy a “fairy tale.” Maybe Hillary Clinton should try leaving the family at home.

There's that word again: "Clintonesque."

I love Eugene Robinson.

[Punkingal]

16. Thanks,love Eugene, too. Saw him on a show the other day saying they hadn't been on it with Bernie.

I noticed the word Clintonesque, too, and that is one of the things I don't want to go back to. As for Hillary leaving the family home, well, apparently they are all alike.

[restorefreedom]

14. 55 comments

only 5 or 6 positive for hillary. a few from rw loons. the rest all for bernie

[FloridaBlues]

15. A short lived battle