Martin O'Malley Welcomes Hillary Clinton to 'the Right Positions' on Marriage and Immigration

Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has made it clear: He will not beat Hillary Clinton with personal attacks. He will, instead, run up her left flank, taking positions on banking and immigration that she might be too cautious to fully embrace.

The first week of Clinton's official campaign complicated the strategy somewhat. In Iowa, she came out for campaign finance reform via constitutional amendment, bank reform, gay marriage, and—via a spokesman, talking to reporter Elise Foley—for drivers' licenses to undocumented immigrants. Clinton's 2007 opposition to that latter idea did damage to her last presidential campaign, when opponents took her apart for seemingly approving of whatever position was least politically fraught.