The Priest or the Warrior?

"Democratic professionals often describe this sorting as a competition between upscale "wine track" candidates and blue-collar "beer track" contenders. Another way to express the difference is to borrow from historian John Milton Cooper Jr.'s telling comparison of the pugnacious Theodore Roosevelt and the idealistic Woodrow Wilson. Cooper described the long rivalry between Republican Roosevelt and Democrat Wilson as a contest between a warrior and a priest. In modern times, the Democratic presidential race has usually pitted a warrior against a priest."

Ronald Brownstein in the Los Angeles Times discusses where Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton fit into these archetypes.

In an October 2007 New York cover story, John Heilemann describes experiences in law school as preparing Obama and Clinton for their later campaign roles.