Who Gets It? Hillary [View All]

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Mrs. Clinton has helped turn the debate around by emerging as both pro-choice and anti-abortion ...(with an approval rating in the state of 69 percent...negative ratings have tumbled to 21 percent)....it's just the right time for Democrats to be fretting about how to reconnect to the heartland, and they can't find a better model for how to do that than Mrs. Clinton..

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/opinion/16kris.html?

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Who Gets It? Hillary
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF


If the Democratic Party wants to figure out how to win national elections again, it has an unexpected guide: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Senator Clinton, much more than most in her party, understands how the national Democratic Party needs to rebrand itself. She gets it - perhaps that's what 17 years in socially conservative Arkansas does to you.
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Then there's abortion. Mrs. Clinton took a hugely important step in January when she sought common ground and described abortion as a "sad, even tragic choice to many, many women."

The Democratic Party commits seppuku in the heartland by coming across as indifferent to people's doubts about abortions or even as pro-abortion. A Times poll in January found that 61 percent of Americans favor tighter restrictions on abortion, or even a ban, while only 36 percent agree with the Democratic Party position backing current abortion law. <snip>