Hillary vs Rivals Is Vegas Bout Worth Viewing: Margaret Carlson

Hillary vs Rivals Is Vegas Bout Worth Viewing: Margaret Carlson

By Margaret Carlson


Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- To all who have shunned previous televised presidential debates, listen up. Tonight, pop a cold one, Tivo ``Grey's Anatomy'' or ``CSI,'' and catch the supper show live from Vegas: no cover, no minimum and no dancing girls, unless a certain candidate pirouettes around questions she'd rather not answer.

Las Vegas, home to as many boxing matches as showgirls, may prove the perfect venue for the next-to-last in a series of bouts that have gotten bloodier. There's a crack in Senator Hillary Clinton's vaunted electability since the last debate that may widen.

The more a frontrunner's status is premised on electability, the more a candidate forgoes appealing to old- fashioned voters who still care about where you stand and who you are, in favor of nailing down those who just want to get over the messy primaries. Forget about falling in love and just fall in line, the better to unite against the real enemy on the other side.

Electability is less stable than being ahead based on leadership, likeability and standing on the issues. Sensing a shift in barometric pressure, Clinton labeled a perfectly reasonable question from NBC TV's Tim Russert at the last debate ``gotcha,'' then did her own version of the Ali shuffle to get off the ropes.

Afterward, she accused the all-boys club of ``piling-on'' for challenging her positions, or lack of them. When the little woman tack didn't work, she switched to a Trumanesque ``she can stand the heat.'' Yet she forgot to tell her husband, who said she'd been ``Swift-boated'' and last weekend in South Carolina that ``those boys have been getting tough on her lately.''

Glass Jaw?

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stupid stupid stupid

set up that failed to mention 3 tiered, approved by Homeland Security, in effect in Washington State where it lowered accident rates and ins. costs - and which Tim changed after the answer to "Divers licenses" implying as ID for plane flights.

Guess Carlson is trying out for Fox Fiction news.