Here’s one way to look at Hillary Clinton: She’s the most highly qualified presidential candidate in years, versed in domestic as well as foreign policy, a centrist who can claim the ability to break gridlock because she has navigated the executive branch as well as both sides of the aisle in the legislative branch.

Here’s another way to look at Hillary Clinton: She is the worst possible candidate for this year, the very embodiment of the political establishment that many voters despise, a slippery and secretive insider in a year when people are seeking authenticity and truth-telling above all else.

In fact, both are plausible ways of seeing the Democratic nominee, the person who, at the traditional start of the fall general-election stretch run, stands the best chance to be the next U.S. president.

She is, in short, a study in paradoxes.

She is one of the best-known people in America. In the latest national survey by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, not a single person who answered the survey said they didn’t know enough about her to have an opinion. Only 10% said their feelings about her are neutral. Almost everybody has an opinion about Hillary Clinton.