Hillary Clinton Vows to Beat All Odds Even as Favorite to Win

Hillary Clinton may be the even favorite to win the next 2008 Presidential election, but if you listen to the New York State Senator, you would think that she is a huge underdog.

Carrie Stroup here with the latest political wrangling, reporting from the world's leading political betting news and information website, Gambling911.com.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is reflecting upon the nation's lone Catholic president and one of the most popular in recent memory, John F. Kennedy.

"He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then [1960] said, 'America will never elect a Catholic as president,' " the White House hopeful told the New Hampshire Democrats' 100 Club fund-raiser here.

"But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better," she said. "They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake, and the rest, as they say, is history."

Noting women are "the majority" of voters and are in the workforce in "record numbers," she added, "So when people tell me 'a woman can never be president,' I say, we'll never know unless we try."

But do women like Hillary Clinton?

Anne Althouse, in her political blog writes that "If she thinks women will vote for a woman because she's a woman, she's wrong."

Althouse cites a Linda Hirshman editorial featured in the Washington Post, which suggests that women tend to vote only by impulse and not on "rational decisions"

Hirshman wrote:

"First, when it comes to women who vote, the political is the personal.... If the polls continue to reflect male aversion to her beyond the baseline male Republican tilt, Clinton may have to go personal to bring the women home. Maybe she could get a couch on casters."

Another way to get the women's vote, we suppose, is to bash President George W. Bush.

"We no longer have a president who puts people first," she said this weekend, citing veterans waiting for treatment, first responders, single moms needing child care, the middle class and the working poor. "You are invisible to this administration."

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Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com

Originally published March 12, 2007 11:43 am ET