08-05-2016, 09:43 AM
(08-04-2016, 12:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Successful one-term President -- issues of age and health.
At worst she will be the new Bush I, with Obama as the liberal equivalent of Ronald Reagan.
And should that scenario play out, the big difference between her and Bush 1 will be that the GOP will not have an evil twin of Bubba to follow up with in 2020. Just the demographics of the White-male-over-55 years-old-voter cohort being 2% less of the electorate every cycle makes that almost a certainty; add-in more female and urbanized, it seals the deal. With Georgia and North Carolina firmly behind the Blue Wall and Texas leaning Blue, the race will be all about the Dem primaries and the General a formality - sort of like a District of Columbia election on steroids.
The DNC needs to get its act together before this becomes obvious. They need to jettison the biggest voter suppression tool in their nominating process - the caucus. That needs to take priority over ending closed primaries and super-delegates. Anyone telling us otherwise is just playing out a political calculation for their narrow political views rather than what's in the best interest to the country.