Well, that certainly didn’t take very long.

Just a week after the purveyors of the conventional wisdom declared, once and for all, the inevitability of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee (a development noted over at the Big Question), the punditocracy’s inevitable course correction is already well underway.

In rapid succession, Time, the Politico and the Liberal Bigfeet of the New York Times’ op-ed page dumped cold water on the notion, citing everything from Clinton’s Bionic Woman persona to the fact that more than anything else, the Media Elite loves covering a knockdown, dragout contest.

Here’s Joe Klein’s take. Here’s the Politico’s. Over at the Times, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd took turns at picking Clinton to pieces.

P.S. It’s not just a Democratic parlor game. Something similar has been happening to Rudy Giuliani, long the apparently prohibitive frontrunner on the Republican’s side. The most recent puncture wound was inflicted by New York Magazine, long a Giuliani tormentor. And the Times piled on with its own version, too.

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