consensus is that while she may win the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, she will never be able to win the office itself. With her husband as her chief strategist, however, it would be foolish to rule her out.
In the six years since the Clintons left the White House, they have remained the Democratic party's greatest stars. In the run-up to this November's Congressional elections, Bill Clinton remains the biggest fund-raising draw for candidates across the country. He refrains from appearing too often with his wife in political settings, so as to avoid seeming like her puppet-master, but the prospect of his masterminding her campaign gives likely opponents the shivers.
The state of the Clintons' marriage, and the prospect of Bill back in the West Wing at his wife's side, add layers of intrigue and colour to the bare politics. Last month the New York Times went to the trouble of scouring the couple's diaries over the previous 17 months - to conclude that they spent 70 per cent of their weekends together, confounding those who maintain the marriage is a sham. 
