ABC coverage of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Presidential debate, December 2015. Ida Mae Astute/ABC/Flickr. Some rights reserved.Panic now grips the Clinton campaign. Polls show Bernie Sanders surging to a dramatic lead in New Hampshire and closing in Iowa. The Washington Post reports that Hillary’s national numbers are dropping faster now than they did in 2008. The Clinton campaign has started throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Sanders, with the gutter award captured, thus far, by Senator Claire McCaskill who smeared him with the “hammer and sickle”, transparently attributing the red-baiting to future Republican attacks of her own imagination.
But the question isn’t what’s wrong with Bernie — he’s soaring beyond all expectations. The question is what’s wrong with Hillary?
What is plaguing the Clinton campaign are the strategic choices of the present.
