SEN. CLINTON’S SECRET WEAPON By DICK MORRIS
THE conventional wis dom is that Hillary Clinton has a lock on the Democratic nomination in 2008 but can’t win the general election. Both claims are open to doubt: A new poll shows Hillary slipping in her battle for the nomination and voter turnout data underscores how serious a chance she has of winning the election if she gets nominated.

The latest Fox News poll (see chart) shows her slipping among likely Democratic primary voters from an unbeatable 43 percent in mid March to a more pedestrian 32 percent in late August.

The key movement seems to be from Hillary to undecided. Why are Democrats turning away from Hillary? The war in Iraq has a lot to do with it, but so does the drumbeat of publicity saying that she can’t be elected. Democratic voters, this year, are determined to win; a pragmatism unusual in the party has taken hold. They’re clearly worried that Hillary might not be a winner.

But take this all with a grain of salt. The last time a Democratic frontrunner failed to win his party’s nomination was 1972. Even frontrunners who slip usually make a comeback, as with Walter Mondale in 1984, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in ‘04. So, while her road won’t be as easy as it once seemed, Hillary is still more likely than not to win the nomination.

She still controls most of the money and has the backing of the ex-officio delegates who she has bought and paid for by distributing more than $50 million in donations to their campaigns

I do not see her winning the general election, she will lose…