Why You Don’t Want to be an Early Frontrunner

Rick Klein: “Your local newsstand makes it look a whole lot like 2016. There’s Republican frontrunner Chris Christie lampooned on the cover of The New Yorker, a cartoon version of the New Jersey governor playing a game that’s blocking traffic. And Democratic frontrunner (lone runner?) Hillary Clinton is the target on the cover of Time, a high heel in motion to ask the question: ‘Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” Well, yes – magazine covers like these don’t exactly help. Neither do the newspaper headlines, after a week of bridge coverage in Christie’s New Jersey, and a day of renewed Benghazi coverage out of the Senate Intelligence Committee report. It’s time to relearn the lesson: Running ahead of the pack two or three years out in the presidential cycle is a dangerous place to be.”