August 2006: "No one could beat Hillary in a primary."
The nice thing about being on a forum that's been online since 2003 is that you can actually test these theories and it's quite clear people here in August 2006 thought Mark Warner was a clear favorite over the Hillary for the nomination with Russ Feingold being the great liberal hope:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=43962.0There's no real Warner or Feingold being pumped up at the moment. There's no Obama to be found anywhere either.