The question is: would she be so popular if she’d won the election?
Kind of an odd story here. Fully one-third of Americans are “suffering a form of buyer’s remorse, saying the U.S. would be better off now if (Hillary Clinton) had become president in 2008 instead of Barack Obama.”
Clinton Popularity Prompts Buyer’s Remorse
The most popular national political figure in America today is one who was rejected by her own party three years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third are suffering a form of buyer’s remorse, saying the U.S. would be better off now if she had become president in 2008 instead of Barack Obama.
Well, hell, the U.S. might be better off now if I’d become president. We might be better off if a soggy green pepper had become president. That’s not saying much.
The finding in the latest Bloomberg National Poll shows a higher level of wishful thinking about a Hillary Clinton presidency than when a similar question was asked in July 2010. Then, a quarter of Americans held such a view.
So the buyer’s remorse effect is getting stronger. I’m tempted to make a “Democrats can’t make up their minds” comment, but hell, Republicans are never happy with the guy they’ve got in office, either.
The question is: is it Clinton’s popularity driving the buyer’s remorse? Or the buyer’s remorse driving her popularity? The causation seems more likely the latter way.
She’s only 63, Democrats. Plenty of time for her to run again. 2012, maybe. Where are those PUMAs when you need them?
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