Hillary Distances Herself from France’s Royal
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In the wake of Segolene Royal’s defeat in France, campaign staffers for another woman presidential hopeful – Hillary Clinton – are dismissing comparisons between their candidate and her French counterpart.
"Other than the fact that they are both women, they don’t have much in common,” said Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s communications director.
For one thing, staffers point out, exit polls showed that Royal lost the women’s vote by 4 percentage points, while polls in the U.S. have shown Clinton running stronger among women, the Washington Post reported.
"Hillary Clinton offers a very different kind of choice than the French faced,” said Mark Penn, Clinton’s chief strategist. "Clinton is well regarded as strong, smart and a leader. Her experience says she is ready to see the country through changes with a steady, substantive and sure hand.”
But some Republicans saw a positive sign for the GOP in the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy – who ran "a Rudolph Giuliani-style campaign of zero tolerance for criminal or civil strife,” according to the Post – over Royal, a Socialist.
Tom Ingram, an adviser to Republican Fred Thompson’s 1994 Senate campaign, saw another positive sign in the Sarkozy win.
"It looked to me like more a change-versus-status-quo campaign, and I think that’s interesting since the change candidate was of the same party as the outgoing president,” he told the Post. "Maybe that’s good news for Republicans.” |
