The WaPo’s Eugene Robinson distills the reason why the Clinton campaign has failed:
Clinton’s sin isn’t racism, it’s arrogance. From the beginning, the Clinton campaign has refused to consider the possibility that Obama’s success was more than a fad. This was supposed to be Clinton’s year, and if Obama was winning primaries, there had to be some reason that had nothing to do with merit. It was because he was black, or because he had better slogans, or because he was a better public speaker, or because he was the media’s darling.
That sense of entitlement has been a part of the Clinton Campaign since the race began last year, if not before then. In every argument she made, there was the usually unstated assumption that because she was married to the President of the United States and had served a few years as President she was “ready from day one” and somehow entitled to be the Democratic frontrunner.
When Obama started to surge in Iowa, it was clear that the campaign really didn’t know what it was doing and had no idea how to handle this new threat. And there was a very simple reason for that — they never really thought that any of the other Democratic candidates would threaten them.
That is arrogance plain and simple, and it’s the reason that Hillary is going to lose. has lost.
