Which candidate do you think is completely overrated?

[IceSpear]

Hillary Clinton, easiest question in the world. If Hillary decides not to run I'm going to laugh at all the Hillary hacks and the entire Democratic Party. Not to mention people act like she's got the election in the bag, as if the country can't possibly get more Republican, because you know, demographics and stuff.

Why would someone who has a 99% chance of winning the nomination and a 50% chance (at worst) of winning the general not run? Unless they really don't want to be president, which we already know isn't a problem for Hillary.

Anyway, the fact that so many clueless pundits and "political experts" still think Hillary could lose the Democratic primary shows that if anything, she's underrated.

[IceSpear]

Hillary Clinton, easiest question in the world. If Hillary decides not to run I'm going to laugh at all the Hillary hacks and the entire Democratic Party. Not to mention people act like she's got the election in the bag, as if the country can't possibly get more Republican, because you know, demographics and stuff.

Why would someone who has a 99% chance of winning the nomination and a 50% chance (at worst) of winning the general not run? Unless they really don't want to be president, which we already know isn't a problem for Hillary.

Anyway, the fact that so many clueless pundits and "political experts" still think Hillary could lose the Democratic primary shows that if anything, she's underrated.

She is underrated? Ummm.. "Hillary will win Texas", "Hillary will win white women by 20 points", "Hillary will win 50 states", "Hillary is unbeatable", "Hillary will castrate the GOP field"... Does that ring a bell? LOL!

I'll give you the fact that she used to be overrated in the GE (the "Hillary will sweep Appalachia/carry Texas!!1!1!" stuff was insufferable), but that seems to have calmed down a lot since the midterm slaughter and her approval ratings coming down to earth. I haven't seen any people saying those first three things any time recently aside from trolls trying to mock Hillary supporters, and the last two are just generic crowing that supporters of any candidate do.

However, the fact remains that she has been and still is underrated in the Democratic primary. Warren isn't running, so the only way Hillary doesn't get the nomination is if she doesn't run or dies.

[IceSpear]

Why would someone who has a 99% chance of winning the nomination and a 50% chance (at worst) of winning the general not run? Unless they really don't want to be president, which we already know isn't a problem for Hillary.

Because she's been in the extremely high stress position of the national political spotlight for over 20 years consecutively and is too tired for another grueling 10 years of campaigns and governing, by the end of which she'll be nearly 80.

Because she doesn't want her grandchild to grow up with scurrilous accusations on her character like people saying she's a witch and she killed Vince Foster, etc. Because she's sick of such things herself.

Because no matter what she does the press will always treat her every move as a political calculation and will never admit that she has genuine opinions and hopes for this country, like a normal human being.

Because she's actually an incredibly smart woman who understands that just because she seems inevitable today, that doesn't mean anything come a year and a half from now.

Because she's been demonized, vilified, slandered, misunderstood, humiliated, cheated on, condescended to, and erased, and she just doesn't give that much of a crap anymore.

Because she doesn't owe anybody anything, including her "supporters" and hacks and other people in the Democratic party who want her to run for their own selfish interests.

Because she too shares the desire for a new generation to step up.

Any of those reasons might be a reason.

Fair enough. But luckily, according to stories like these, Hillary doesn't see things that way.