While democrats have always been maligned as being big spenders, the former First Lady is proposing the establishment of funds to the tunes of several billion dollars that would make even Solomon in his entire splendor blush. With her heart in the right place, and the idea of gaining the trust and confidence of those voters traditionally disenfranchised by the republicans, yet who are conservative at heart, she seeks to appeal to the sense of self-preservation by those voting blocks that are traditionally considered underserved and taken for granted.
Her poll numbers, as indicated on the USA Election Polls website, bear out her success, and she is wooing more and more support over her fellow democrats who seek to also gain the party's nomination. Iowans have indicated that Hillary Clinton is ahead of John Edwards and Barack Obama with 30% versus their 21% and 15% respectively in an American Research Group poll taken on 07-28-07, while New Jersey voters declared to the Strategic Vision poll takers on 07-14-07 that she is favored with 46% over Obama who came in a distant second with 20%.
The danger the former First Lady now faces is garnering a reputation that will vilify her as a lean, mean, spending machine. After all, she has pledged $1 billion to help bail out homeowners in dire straits facing foreclosure already, but she is also promising to institute another $1 billion fund that will increase federal housing support. Talking about affordable housing, those who have been burned in the past by the ghetto-like construction of housing projects that have attracted gang members, drugs, graffiti, and other undesirable consequences, her spending plans may be little more than hollow efforts at throwing money at the problem, while her most vociferous detractors will accuse her of being the typical democratic candidate who spends until run out of office.
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