Perhaps Hillary Clinton will not run for president. Or perhaps the one potential opponent who could actually give her candidacy an existential challenge, Elizabeth Warren, will reverse field and run. Either of these eventualities could make 2015 an exciting prelude to an exciting 2016 Democratic nominating contest.
But more likely than not, Clinton will run and Warren won’t. And that will more than likely mean that Democrats will enter the caucuses and primaries resigned to but not necessarily “ready for” Hillary, and strongly favoring a challenge aimed at—to use the term so often heard—keeping her honest.
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