Strategist: Clinton/Trump race wouldn't even be close

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Donald Trump would lose handily to Hillary Clinton in a general election for one key reason, former Bush 43 aide Tony Fratto said Thursday.

"In the very best of years, when you have a unified GOP, Republicans have an electoral disadvantage relative to the Democratic candidate; that's pretty clear," Fratto told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
"Trump is not going to bring unity to the party. If it's a contested convention, and it's someone else, that's not going to resolve unity either. So, [with] a divided GOP and a fairly unified Democratic candidate, I don't think this is a hard question," said Fratto, the former deputy White House press secretary and now managing director at consulting firm Hamilton Place Strategies.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/17/strategist-clintontrump-race-wouldnt-even-be-close.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. And in the meatime I have heard strategists on CNN-I

and Mexican media (they are both American strategists) say exactly the contrary all this week.

It is kind of amazing just how much the media wall around the US really leads to a bubble... You should even go look (there are many of these pieces) around the world on how this could end up in the House. Unlikely, but people are playing with that...

[NurseJackie]

2. The "Chewing Man" on the left side of the image ... I can't stop watching!

[calguy]

3. The GOP is so screwed

They really don't have any options left to deal with the consequences of their actions over the past few decades.

[Armstead]

4. GOP Establishment trying to to the same thing as the Democrat Establishment

Scare their members from nominating someone outside the bubble. They use Clinton. The Dems use Trump.

It's worked for the Democrats. Not so for the GOP, at least not yet.

(This is not a defense of the GOP or Trump. They're both awful.)

[flamingdem]

5. Good news

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. It's just one man's opinion but good news is good news./nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. That's a whole lotta whistling past the graveyard right there.

And a misreading of the electorate. I say this as someone who lived under a President George W. Bush, President and Gov. Ronald Reagan, and a Gov. Schwarzenegger.