Josh Benson’s Sunday article for the New York Times on the suddenly-close race for New Jersey governor between Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine and Republican candidate Doug Forrester discusses the outside political celebrities each campaign is calling in: Karl Rove and Dick Cheney on the Republican side, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama for the Democrats.

But while Rove and Cheney are labeled as “two distinctively conservative and polarizing figures,” neither Clinton or Obama are labeled as polarizing or even liberal, but instead are “two of Mr. Corzine’s more celebrated colleagues.”

So… Cheney and Rove are polarizing, but Hillary Clinton, of all people, isn’t?

She’s probably the most hated person in American politics by her opponents, and few people hold anything even close to a middle-of-the-road opinion of her. Wouldn’t that classify her as polarizing?