I noticed this small item in the news today, from a poll done by the NBC News and Wall Street Journal folks. So their poll question asked: is Hillary Clinton popular?
The answer? 27-percent of folks said 'somewhat positive'. The rest? Less so.
So the general question by the news media is why.
I sat and pondered over this. I came to this conclusion....Hillary Clinton probably never was that popular.
Oh, the news media hyped her books, and her speeches....but when you get down to accomplishments, there was never anything to demonstrate long-term popularity.
It's like talking about the 2012 Florida Marlins baseball team. For a brief season, with tons of money thrown around....the Marlins built this mega-team, and won games. All of this would mean fans coming to the park and hype around the entire state. Well....it briefly lasted a year, and then they dismantled most of the team, and today.....no one remembers the 2012 Marlins team.
It's like talking about the actor Nicolas Cage, and asking people to name one of his movies. The hype carries him but few remember the movies.
I think Hillary just rode out this massive wave for well over thirty years and the wave came to an end. No one can cite any great accomplishments in life. At least with Jimmy Carter, they will talk about his houses that his foundation group helped to building over the past three decades.
In three years? I suspect that a quarter of the public will have forgotten her entirely.
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