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Hillary Hunts for the Human Touch

Posted Jun 28, 07 3:34 PM CDT in Politics,  Gossip,  US 

(Newser) – Hillary Clinton has experience and leadership to spare, but she’s battling innate appearances just to be liked, Slate’s John Dickerson says. No one thinks Clinton's a shrinking violet—pollees call her tougher than former POW John McCain—but she struggles on the "softer" qualities, like, say, appearing human.

Gender especially dogs Clinton, Dickerson writes; the iconic hard-as-nails first lady loses allure "for not meeting some abstract notion of womanhood." The Hillary camp's efforts to humanize their candidate range from the silly Sopranos take-off to stories of wedding showers and "late-night gossip sessions."

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks to Democrats in North Little Rock, Ark., Saturday, June 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)   (Associated Press)
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., smiles as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, back left, look on during the NYC2012 bid news conference in Singapore...   (Associated Press)
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