Who were the other sixty percent? Idiots?

According to the International Herald Tribune, "Clinton had one big problem out of the gate: 40 percent or more of Americans said they would never vote for her." "Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win. Many people believed her victory in the Democratic nomination race was a sure thing. Her ultimate failing may have been in believing it, too... Voters, whose No. 1 concern had been ending the Iraq war, started worrying more about the economy. That was a switch from rival Barack Obama's strength to hers. Despite all that, her campaign is on the ropes. Clinton is fighting on for a prize few believe she can win anymore, barring some game-changing development. Sixteen months after she opened her campaign sitting on a couch in a cozy online video, it is questionable whether people ever discovered the authentic Clinton. Is she the whiskey-downing pit bull of Indiana? The near-tears softy of New Hampshire? The technocrat of health care reform or the populist who dismisses economic policy experts as out-of-touch elitists? "They know that I can make decisions," she said in New Hampshire, "but I also want them to know I'm a real person." Even many of the New York senator's supporters thought she would say anything to win, or be anyone.

Rico says the crash is going to be ugly, and can't come soon enough...