We probably won't have an announcement for at least another year -- maybe after the 2014 election -- but people do read tea leaves and much more reliable signs, like making speeches, setting up committees to raise money, writing books, and keeping her name in the news.
Heck, Hillary didn't even take 3 months off to rest up from her grueling almost-a-million miles traveled as Secretary of State. This week she launched her schedule of speeches, focusing especially on global women's conferences, where she is regarded as a saint. She also signed a lucrative contract to write a book about her time at State. Chelsea is giving interviews and saying how confident she is about her mother's future. Former Clinton campaign manager James Carville is in hypomanic mode about the prospects.
Moreover, as Maureen Dowd points out: she has a new hairdo. (Only another woman could say that without being called sexist.)
It must be like catnip to a tiger to have the king-makers and voters begging you to run, to be leading the best the other team can muster in the polls, and to think that you could lead your party to put the first woman in the Oval Office to succeed the first African-American behind that desk.
All I ask is that she stay as far as possible away from Mark Penn, who ran her dysfunctional 2008 campaign; pick someone who learned from the masters who ran Obama's team.
Ralph
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