I don't see where that assessment comes from. Watch the Couric interviews, and see if you come away with the same opinion. Talk about a train wreck... I would agree completely IF her actions matched her "maverick" rhetoric. With too few exceptions, it does not. I'm still with YoDude: give me the brainiac any day over someone representing "Joe Sixpack". Hasn't 8 years of the latter cured us of that quaint notion yet?