Hillary is on the attack:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pollster fired an opening salvo at Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards yesterday, claiming their campaigns are “stalled or falling” — and suggesting Obama isn’t tough enough to withstand GOP attacks in 2008.
She might have a huge lead, as former Presidents Ed Muskie, Howard Dean, and Joeseph Lieberman had huge leads for the nomination before they went on to win (presumably in some parallel universe). Somehow this long before the first caucus, and when the candidates are just playing the “exploratory committee” game, it sounds awfully early to describe another campaign as stalled.
Hillary’s victory would also seem more inevitable if there wasn’t so much sentiment for, as the Los Angeles Times puts it, anyone but a Bush or a Clinton. USA Today reports that many Democrats worry that Hillary cannot win. As I previously noted, a more serious fear is that she can win.
