Amid Warren buzz, Clinton might do well not to wait too long to announce 2016 bid

[Jesus Malverde]

Hillary Rodham Clinton, after much debate within her inner circle, appears to have put off formally entering the 2016 presidential race until spring 2015.

Although there are plenty of reasons that favor waiting — legal ones in terms of how she incorporates (or doesn’t) the various outside groups that have blossomed in support of her in the past few years, and political ones about looking less, well, political, for as long as possible — there’s also a big reason she should at least consider announcing sooner rather than later.

And that reason is Elizabeth Warren. Or, at least, the energy and passion among liberals that is, at the moment, channeled through the Massachusetts senator. An attempt to draft her was launched formally last week, and her stern opposition to the $1.1 trillion spending bill because of a provision that would ease derivative trading by corporations drew scads of national coverage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-warren-buzz-clinton-might-do-well-not-to-wait-too-long-to-announce-2016-bid/2014/12/14/e0ffdd8c-83b9-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html

[PSPS]

1. Way too early for anyone to announce

History is full of examples of highly desirable candidates who announced too soon and, thus, peaked too soon.

[unblock]

2. haha. yeah, she should keep us guessing.

[morningfog]

8. Hillary has already peaked.

She's such a known quantity that she has no where to go but down in the polls.

It doesn't matter when she announces. She'll get a slight, quick bump and begin the long slow decline.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Yes it is too early to announce she is going to run. This is reality, if she waits until

The spring or even later to announce and she does not win the primary, Hillary has had a good life and I doubt not being president is going to crush her life. Many here have already declared Warren or Bernie winners, not by a long shot. What makes either inevitable, nothing. Let the primaries play before the end of the game sounds its buzzer.

[Autumn]

4. We all know Hillary is planning on saying yes. I think she should wait until

2017 to announce.

[brooklynite]

5. Know who's not getting wrapped up in the "Warren Buzz"?

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Elizabeth Warren.

If she WANTED to be President, this would be a great opportunity. She doesn't.

[MADem]

6. +1 -- she knows that her most ardent Senate backers have already committed to HRC/POTUS.

She'd find herself with a lot of small donors in the style of Ralph Nader, and no big pockets.

Without big pockets, that's the end of the line...and this upcoming election, there's going to be more money than ever flung at these races. It'll be a great time to do nothing but watch premium TV when the presidential primaries get underway--the networks will be stuffed with noxious TV ads.

[L0oniX]

7. If I said what I think about Hillary it would get a hide.

[benz380]

10. And don't forget...

...she "don't feel no ways tired".
Who's idea was it for her to fake a southern accent?
What an embarassment!