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#142

Perhaps she took the Sec. position to stay in the game, but in my eyes, resigning for Kerry was a bow out of the race.

Hmmm, I assumed she quit State to give herself time to rest-prepare for a campaign and ensure she wouldn’t be trying to campaign while being SoS. I also think the decision to quit State was driven at least in part with an eye towards wanting to detach herself, or be seen as detaching herself, from the Administration, so she could campaign without necessarily defending it (and some of her critical comments since then would seem to support this idea).