Is Hillary Clinton hearing the ghosts of primaries past?
A lot’s changed for Hillary Clinton since her last go-around in the primaries. She won the Iowa caucuses this time (by a hair), which she lost to Barack Obama in 2008. And while she beat Obama in New Hampshire in 2008, she’s predicted to lose to Bernie Sanders tonight.
As politics becomes increasingly personalized, swing voters aren’t interested in policy debates, so they vote for the candidate with whom they feel the greatest emotional connection.... Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is based not on a bottom-up community organizer’s sense of hope but on a top-down progressive’s sense of entitlement.