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2016 Postmortem

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stopbush

(24,405 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 11:43 PM Nov 2016

I've been voting since 1972 - never felt this confident about the D candidate for POTUS winning [View all]

I remember voting for Ds who I knew were going down (Mondale), Ds that I felt had a good chance to win (Clinton) and Ds that I thought had an excellent chance to win (Obama).

But I have never felt about a candidate winning as surely as I feel Hillary will win, and win big. It's not over confidence. It's looking at all the traditional indicators AND the realities that Trump is facing, realities no candidate for any office would envy facing: your party against you, fellow party members denouncing you and announcing their support for your opponent, major newspapers endorsing the D candidate for the first time in their history, scientists, military people and diplomats coming out en masse to denounce you and to support your opponent.

With former allies like this, who needs enemies?

Setting aside Hillary's seling points, the revulsion to Trump is something that is unprecedented in American presidential politics. To imagine that all of the negativity directed at Trump will not have an extremely negative effect on his chances is to live in a fantasy land.

That's why I'm feeling so positive about Hillary. She is on her way to a victory of epic proportions.

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