Hillary Clinton’s Lead Widens
2 comments August 7th, 2007
A Gallup/USA Today poll, just released, mirrors another recent one showing Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama has widened to more than 20 percentage points. As this blog had pointed out before, the vaunted Obama threat to Hillary Clinton’s “coronation” at next summer’s Democratic National Convention was pure media hype. These recent polls confirm that Barack is No-Bama as a threat to the Clinton political machine.
While Hillary’s national poll numbers have grown, she has been primarily building up her campaign infrastructure and collecting pivotal political endorsements. Once she officially announces her presidential candidiacy (she remains currently in the “exploratory” phase), Hillary Clinton will kick into high gear, and begin to focus on the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. These two events mark the first electoral contests in the 2008 presidential election. Her goal will be to transfer her national lead in the polls to these two states, which are currently viewed as competitive. Should Hillary Clinton win convincingly in Iowa and New Hampshire, the ballgame is over, at least as far as the Democratic nomination is concerned. Statrting is September, expect to see both Hillary and Bill Clinton intensely visible in both these states, live and on television and the Internet courtesy of YouTube.
At this point, the Democratic nomination is Hillary Clinton’s to lose. As her record shows, Mrs. Clinton is not for losing. As she said when first announcing her “exploratory” candidacy, she’s “in it to win it.”
