Hillary Clinton’s likability problem
The Democratic front-runner is putting her experience and gender into focus on the 2016 campaign trail.
That arms-length strategy has helped Warren realize what mightn’t have been possible if she’d really jumped into the race herself: making the Democratic Party’s economic program seem more and more like her very own.
“I’d rather be her than anyone else”, he said.
Clinton has repeatedly maintained that she did not send classified emails over her private account, but several have been retroactively classified, NPR reported. She was the senator when we needed to rebuild that city. “I think now she is walking that fine line all the time”. “In a meeting now but can talk later tonight”, according to CBS News. That could mean an uphill battle for the former Secretary of State who has kept a safe distance from the public.
In a quip that may have cost him New Hampshire, Obama responded, “You’re likable enough, Hillary”. You can live with the protest about a video.
Relating to Hillary on a personal level is not the only obstacle; the other is gaining support from voters who question her past.
“It may be predictable for me to say this, but there’s a lot we can learn from Latin America’s success at electing women presidents”, Clinton said.
But neither the public nor the media get to decide what Hillary Clinton’s name is. Aides forwarded Clinton congratulatory messages even as she was still on the stand testifying before Congress in January 2013.
The October 25 edition of the Wall Street Journal included a piece by Monica Langley covering Clinton’s legacy at the State Department.
“The point is not to create news stories, but to ensure when these people deliver their inevitable assessments of your term as secretary they have an appreciation of some of the difficulties and complexities”, Rubin’s September 18 email to Clinton read. “That’s the problem”, Rose said. Constitutional and legal changes gave way to more than 50 percent of women legislators in some countries, compared to 20 percent in the U.S. Congress.
“She has so many qualifications: experience, knowledge, partisan skill”, Zelizer said, adding that the likability factor “is what she needs to work on”.
Although Clinton’s campaign and advocates may have tried to reduce the hawkish Freudian slip to a slip of the tongue, however, Hillary has yet again fallen back on the 9/11 attacks when asked about her ties to Wall Street. She has since had to revise that claim after it was discovered that she sent emails from a different address during her first few months in office. “It is not an image that most people would be comfortable with if a woman was the lead and her family was in the background”.