She is hands down the most broadly qualified and experienced among the candidates. But there remains an intangible quality that eludes her: connectivity. Even many people who admire her simply don’t trust her.
This is the same problem that, to varying degrees, Mitt Romney, Al Gore and Bob Dole had. It’s not fixable. Indeed, attempts to fix it feel even more forced and phony.
Another part of this problem stems from something far more tangible: the taint of scandal that has trailed her and her husband much of their lives.
Millennials are notoriously distrusting of institutions. Sanders is anti-institution. The Clintons are an institution... Do they want to put forth a survivor in chief, of whom many are suspicious and about whom few are truly excited, or a dreamer in chief (in the candidacy of Sanders) who says all the things they want to hear but that they quietly know he’ll never be able to deliver?