Hillary Clinton’s Fall From Inevitability

 With the news of this poll, we are learning exactly how far Hillary Clinton has fallen in the eyes of the Democrat voters. Once thought of as the inevitable Democrat nominee, she is now clinging on to her leads in all of the early primary states by a thread. Her once large leads have dwindled to within the margin of error.

 Iowa: Clinton nabbed 27%, followed by Obama at 25% and Edwards at 21%. No other candidate scored double-digits, including Richardson who came in at 9% and Joe Biden who rec’d 5%. As for the all-important second-choice category, all three Dem frontrunners are tied, with 30% picking Obama, 29% naming Clinton and 27% selecting Edwards.

New Hampshire: This is the tightest result for any New Hampshire Dem primary poll this year. Clinton gets 30% to Obama’s 27%. Edwards barely cracks double-digits with 10%, with one in five primary voters undecided.

South Carolina: Clinton gets 28% to Obama’s 25%. Edwards is a competitive third at 18%.

So what has caused this rapid and, to be truthful, delightful fall from grace? It appears to have begun during that now infamous debate in which she took both sides of the same issue in regards to driver’s licences for illegals, and her campaign has spiraled downward ever since. She has been found to have planted questions at her campaign stops, and at the Republican debate for that matter. She has run on her experience in the white house as first lady as a reason to vote for her, yet she refuses to release her records as first lady to the public until after she is elected, I mean until after 2008.

 One of the reasons for her fall from grace and her inevitable nomination is all of the above I just mentioned. She now seems to be dishonest. I know what you are thinking, a dishonest Clinton, it can’t be. Her campaign seems to be in panic mode now and the more she tries to save it, the worse it becomes.

 Hillary Clinton has always maintained high disapproval ratings. They hover near or above 50% depending on the poll you look at. This has many voters feeling buyer’s remorse. When it comes time to go into the booth and vote for a candidate, Democrats will be afraid that Mrs. Clinton will not be able to win the general election because of those negativity ratings, so they are beginning to turn elsewhere.

 And lastly, Americans love the underdog. Americans love to route for those that seem doomed to failure. Hillary Clinton was, and is, pushed upon the American people as the front-runner, and the Democrat nominee in waiting. Americans don’t like to be told who to route for, or in the case of politics, who to vote for, so there could be some backlash in this regard also. Democrats are tired of being told that they will nominate Hillary, so they will look at an underdog, another name to vote for.

 Honestly, I still feel Hillary will win the Democrat nomination, but it is fun to see her vulnerable. Her campaign seems to be panicking, and that is fun to watch, even if in the end she still pulls out the Democrat nomination. I think her negatives do hurt her in the general election, and I honestly believe Republican pundits hope she wins the nomination because of all the fuel they will have. I still don’t want to see her get that far, because of the chance she could win, after all, just look how close a moonbat like John Kerry came. She would be far worse.

 So while Hillary probably will still win the Democrat nomination, let us all enjoy her fall from inevitability, and watch her squirm a little bit. Of course the media will probably portray this as a positive, and spin this as how she was strong as all the candidates attacked her and closed the gap. They will tell us how she stood tall in all this adversity, and tell us that that strength will qualify her to be president.

 But we know the truth. Hillary is struggling, her campaign is struggling, she is being exposed has having no true ideas. She is just promising everyone everything, all the while knowing she can deliver very little, if any, of it, in an attempt to get elected.

 Will Hillary Clinton still win the Democrat nomination? In my opinion, yes. Is it a coronation, as we have been led to believe? No. And where there is a little doubt, the door opens for others to walk in. Let’s see if they can take advantage.