HILLARY'S WAY – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:  What is Hillary Clinton's strategy?  She seems to have a new strategy to win her party's nomination, but what comes after that?  Andrew Malcolm at IBD has what I consider to be an excellent analysis: 

Clinton is not leading Democrats' current stampede to the far left of the political spectrum. She's trying to catch up. Aides say she would go farther than even Obama's executive orders in releasing illegal immigrants from restrictions.

Conventional political wisdom months ago had Clinton plotting to find a delicate way to distance herself from her lame-duck, ex-boss for the 2016 election. His poll numbers have sagged sadly with 584 days left. And Clinton's have plunged too, especially in dangerous categories like trustworthiness as a result of her private email server scandal and inconsistencies explaining it.

Instead of distancing herself, however, the 67-year-old Clinton has clearly calculated that her ambition of becoming the first lady president is better served by actually embracing the man she so often denounced in 2007-08.

She's going to need track shoes by fall 2016 if she intends to seek the middle-road where U.S. general election competitors usually collide.

With the exception of George H.W. Bush in 1988, modern American voters have also shown a distaste for electing the same party to inhabit the White House for three consecutive terms.

That's one reason only three kamikaze candidates are challenging Clinton, and Joe Biden has been so silent. And why so many on the Republicans' well-stocked bench are competing to face her. Jeb Bush announces today. Bobby Jindal late this month. Scott Walker in mid-July.

COMMENT:  Hillary is trying to keep together the Obama coalition, but that coalition was based on the excitement, in some circles, about a first black president.   They're low-information voters, and they may not come out for Hillary.

June 15, 2015