Can Hillary Clinton save the Democratic Party? It is one of the questions posed bypolicy makers and commentators in the wake of the mid-term elections. Evidencethat 2016 presidential election and potential candidates already receive attentionin the United States, countries in perpetual campaign.
The counting of the votes was not even completed when Rand Paul, RepublicanSenator from Kentucky and candidate approached the 2016 presidential election,has tried to link Hillary Clinton to the discomfiture of the Democrats in the mid-term elections.
"Today, voters have sent a message to president Obama and Hillary Clinton,rejecting their policies and their candidates", he wrote on his Facebook page,where appeared photos of the former American Secretary of State along with sixDemocrats for whom she had campaigned.
Could "Hillary losers", be read at the bottom of each photo, published shortlyafter midnight last Wednesday.
It wasn't the first time that Rand Paul took to Hillary Clinton, but his message wasa peculiar phenomenon of American politics: at the end of the mid-termelections, he is already question of the next presidential election.
That said, Hillary Clinton and his entourage are perhaps the only Democrats tonot mope as a result of the mid-term elections, no offense to Rand Paul. Since theconquest of the Senate by Republicans is, in their eyes, an evil for a while. Theyare convinced that Kentucky Senator and his colleagues from the Tea Party,including Ted Cruz, their will be wonderfully of pusher.
They are also convinced that the electoral verdict of last week will allow HillaryClinton to position itself even more easily as saving figure to his demoralizedparty. This thesis assumes that it will have too much delay to confirm hiscandidacy for the Presidency (it has already made it clear that it would announceits decision after 1 January).
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and his advisers will seek to analyze election resultsand polls Tuesday last out of polling stations. And the former first lady will abandon his lectures well compensated to listen to representatives from diversebackgrounds in order to collect ideas and advice for his next campaign.
Several of his interlocutors will undoubtedly not fail to revisit the strategic error ofthe Democrat candidates in the mid-term elections. Rather than defend thebalance of the president and to respond to the anxiety of voters about theeconomy, they tried to dig the advantage of their party with women focusing onrights to abortion, contraception and pay equity.
This strategy has certainly not helped the Senator from Colorado Mark Udall, aDenver Post reporter is mocked in nicknaming 'Mark Uterus'.
But Democrats may not have need of a Savior in 2016. Two cyclical factorscontributed to the triumph of Republicans last Tuesday. As is usually the casewhen the mid-term elections, the participants were older, whiter and moreconservative than they are in the presidential elections. And most of the keySenate races took place in conservative States who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.
In 2016, the senatorial elections will encourage Democrats. Republicans mustdefend 23 seats (out of the 33 at stake), several of which are in States whereBarack Obama triumphed in 2008 or 2012.
They will also face a dreaded "blue wall". The term used last week by CNN analystDavid Gergen, refers to the 18 States that voted for Democratic candidates for thePresidency in the course of the six recent elections and should be even in 2016.These States represent 242 of the 270 electoral College votes needed to win thePresidency.
Therefore suffice to Hillary Clinton, if she became candidate of Democrats, to addto this 'blue wall' a key like (29 votes in the electoral College) Florida State to winthe Presidency.
Of course, none of this is enshrined in concrete. And some conservatives, inflatedto block after the Republican triumph of last Tuesday, have doubts about theability of Hillary Clinton to save his party. To give an idea of their skepticism,include some excerpts from an article published the week last by the weeklyNational Review under the pen of Yubal Levin:
"[Hillary Clinton] is smart, tough and smart and she has the ability to learn fromits failures and to adjust. But [...] people are weary of it [...]. It is a tasteless elitist[...] which will be probably reduced to campaigning by leveraging the experienceand competence while
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