Which candidate do you think is completely overrated?

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A Clinton victory isn't inevitable, so she has to go on this list. I have a feeling that Warren would invite some very strong and negative reactions among suburban voters.

I have no idea why people talk about Kasich, Walker, and Jeb as if they're Presidential candidate material. Now that we have communication and media channels that aren't the radio, it's difficult for a candidate whose personality and demeanor is as interesting as watching paint dry to win a major party nomination.

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He isnt running, but liberals favorite Republican John Huntsman is overrated.

This can't be stressed enough. The "If Jon Huntsman was the nominee, he'd win a thousand electoral votes!" talk was insufferable.

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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.

rofl, post of the year.

Hillary Clinton: Too pure, too beautiful, too fragile for this world.

Agreed. It takes quite the imagination to come up with that.

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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.

rofl, post of the year.

Hillary Clinton: Too pure, too beautiful, too fragile for this world.

Agreed. It takes quite the imagination to come up with that.

Great counter argument, guys Seriously, which one of those is untrue?

None of them are true or untrue--your list is simply pure speculation. And because nobody has heard from her--directly--that she is or isn't running, you're welcome to come up with your own theory as to why she may or may not run.

We would be foolish to treat any of the aforementioned points as hard evidence that she will not run, because there is no evidence there.

Reports of VP speculation? Fundraising? Those are substantive moves towards running. Having a grandchild (as if that's in her control) isn't evidence of anything.