HRC Beinart sites comes in the next paragraph where he observes that “Research shows that female candidates–especially Democratic ones–are perceived as more liberal than they really are.” This quickly gets turned around into a clever pro-HRC point (“She may find it easier to run as an antiwar candidate because that is how people are predisposed to see her. Ever since she entered the U.S. Senate, Clinton has been trying to overcome people’s ingrained perceptions. Now she must hope she hasn’t succeeded too well.”) but I think it’s obviously a huge problem for her candidacy.Who wants to nominate a candidate who’s going to be perceived as more liberal than she really is?