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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (119914)	4/4/2008 10:47:54 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Stay in It to Win It By ROBERT SHRUM Published: April 4, 2008 Correction Appended SHE has very little chance of winning, but Hillary Clinton has no reason to get out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination — for now. A long shot isn’t the same as no chance at all. And an extended campaign doesn’t have to wound the nominee, assuming a measure of self-restraint on both sides. From Barack Obama’s side, this would mean no more suggestions, even in the guise of counterattacks, that Mrs. Clinton’s role in the White House was “ceremonial,” when she was in fact her husband’s most influential adviser; no more memos criticizing her “character gap”; and no more distorted readings of her health care plan that assert it would force people to buy insurance they can’t afford. From Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, there should be no more sly comments about who is qualified to be commander in chief that just happen to include John McCain and exclude Mr. Obama; no more calls to superdelegates that traffic in dark warnings about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.; and no more silly, and false, charges that Mr. Obama wasn’t a “professor” at the University of Chicago law school, a transparent ploy that failed to stem the fallout after Mrs. Clinton “misspoke” about her trip to Bosnia as first lady. The degree of aggression on each side may not be comparable, as both sides argue on their own behalf. But the Democratic nomination may not be worth winning if the victor is lacerated as unready, unfit to hold the office, or un-American — not, as expected, by the vast right-wing conspiracy but by a Democratic rival. I don’t doubt that Mr. Obama would agree to these rules of the road. He is winning, after all. His summons to change has proved more compelling than Mrs. Clinton’s argument for experience. So wouldn’t a truce be asymmetrical? Without attacking, how could she possibly catch up? That’s why the Clinton operatives turned to what they call a “kitchen sink” strategy. But the negative campaign apparently damages her more than Mr. Obama. Fairly or unfairly, she is blamed for it. In a recent poll, her approval rating collapsed to 37 percent. No one can be elected with that rating, undoing her rationale that she would be a stronger candidate against John McCain. Yet Mrs. Clinton has another, if decidedly narrow, path to the nomination. She has shifted from the cautious, triangulating approach that converted her inevitability into improbability. Now she sounds a populism that recalls Bill Clinton’s 1992 pledge to “put people first.” If defeat comes for Hillary Clinton, it will be hard for her to face. At the start, she thought the nomination was hers. She could have been the candidate of change instead of the establishment candidate in a year of change. She might have swept the primaries in spite of Mr. Obama’s extraordinary talents. But that was the year that wasn’t. And, in the likely event that she falls short by June, I hope and believe that no matter how hard it is, she will do the right thing. Robert Shrum, a senior fellow at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and the author of “No Excuses,” was a senior adviser to Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000 and John warwoundfakerKerry’s presidential campaign in 2004.