A bad patch, yes, but don’t write off Clinton

In politics, as in many endeavors, it helps to be underestimated. In this sense, Hillary Clinton is doing great.

Clinton’s book tour, which bears some resemblance to a presidential campaign, is being portrayed as some kind of disaster. Her attempt to portray her family as less than fabulously wealthy was bad; her effort to justify that pretense was worse. Her political instincts seem rusty, her reflexes a bit slow. To top it off, the book she’s flogging — a memoir of her years as secretary of state — is not a publishing juggernaut, merely a bestseller.

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