Hun var den fødte præsidentkandidat, og ville være den første kvindelige præsident. Storfavorit med støtte i det meste af partiet. Alligevel gik det galt for Hillary Clinton, og hun tabte til Barack Obama. Men hvorfor fejlede favoritten? Joshua Green her fra en lidt ældre artikel i The Atlantic: The Front-Runner’s Fall
Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton’s loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency. What follows is the inside account of how the campaign for the seemingly unstoppable Democratic nominee came into being, and then came apart.