It is becoming clearer and clearer that the Clinton presidential campaign, once seen as an unsinkable ship in the democratic presidential race, is in serious trouble.
Senator Clinton has been the national front-runner for the democratic nomination since the very moment her hat was tossed into the ring. Many assumed that her namesake alone was enough to usher her into the pages of history as the first female president of the United States.
Flags were waved, babies were kissed, and everyone involved was generally confident that her maiden voyage from New York to Washington would go just as planned. Every detail was tallied, counted, and polled. Every step in her route was meticulously plotted, every aspect carefully considered. In all of this certainty, and with all of the arrogance of the captain of an invincible ship, one detail was forgotten, not only by the Clinton campaign, but by the American public at large.
Senator Clinton has been the national front-runner for the democratic nomination since the very moment her hat was tossed into the ring. Many assumed that her namesake alone was enough to usher her into the pages of history as the first female president of the United States.
Flags were waved, babies were kissed, and everyone involved was generally confident that her maiden voyage from New York to Washington would go just as planned. Every detail was tallied, counted, and polled. Every step in her route was meticulously plotted, every aspect carefully considered. In all of this certainty, and with all of the arrogance of the captain of an invincible ship, one detail was forgotten, not only by the Clinton campaign, but by the American public at large.
That detail was the fact that this journey would be one through a landscape that is peppered with political icebergs.
Political icebergs like Iowa. A problem, but not an insurmountable one. Water was bailed, and a New Hampshire victory seemed to plug all of the leaks and holes there were allowing America's doubt to seep through the thick steel walls.
Then yet another, much larger iceberg was spotted. This new challenge became the catalyst for several perceived mis-steps by the campaign. These mis-steps, framed as racism by opposing campaigns and media alike, stripped the Clinton campaign of the black vote that it had been expected to carry. The nervous eyes of her campaign managers began to dip towards the life boat mechanisms as the Clinton campaign was dealt an ominous loss in South Carolina.
Political icebergs like Iowa. A problem, but not an insurmountable one. Water was bailed, and a New Hampshire victory seemed to plug all of the leaks and holes there were allowing America's doubt to seep through the thick steel walls.
Then yet another, much larger iceberg was spotted. This new challenge became the catalyst for several perceived mis-steps by the campaign. These mis-steps, framed as racism by opposing campaigns and media alike, stripped the Clinton campaign of the black vote that it had been expected to carry. The nervous eyes of her campaign managers began to dip towards the life boat mechanisms as the Clinton campaign was dealt an ominous loss in South Carolina.
Clinton was soundly defeated in South Carolina, by an adversary with an undoubtable passion and public speaking ability. An opponent who had galvanized several sectors of the voting populace that had never made their voices heard in his support. The status-quo is reeling from the force of these previously disregarded sectors of the voting public.
As for the Clinton campaign, it sails on, its radio apprehensively squawking for support amongst the elite voices of its party. Only now it sails with a little less certainty, and a little less bravado, and a new inclination towards negative tactics that may well be the final breach in the hull of the Clinton Campaign.
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