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Clinton's future in party uncertain

By Jacob Carpenter

Created:
08/26/08 11:07pm

Last updated:
08/26/08 11:07pm

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Hillary Clinton ended her speech Tuesday night promoting “the great
future of America.”

Now that Clinton has saluted her supporters and given her grand
send-off from the larger Democratic presidential picture, the greater
question becomes whether Clinton has a great future in the party.

The New York senator will never go away because of the Clinton name,
but it remains to be seen whether she will be able to recover from
this campaign, one in which she was a clear leader beaten out by a
one-term U.S. senator. She set the stage for continuing in national
politics with her speech Tuesday, delivering a thank-you, endorsement
and rallying cry all in one.

But four years, the time of the next presidential election, is far off
and politics is fleeting. Nobody could have predicted Sen. Barack
Obama would break from the pack in the presidential primaries back
when Clinton was a front-runner.

Clinton likely will maintain a similar base of supporters, but needs
to find a way to attract the voters she struggled to keep and lost to
Obama.

There’s no telling exactly how she would do that, or if she would even
want to make another run for president after a grueling year, but
Clinton probably will need to change without reinventing her political
wheel if she wants a shot in 2012.

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