2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Why--Hillary in 2016---this had 80,000 views and a lot of criticism in July of 2013
I did a little flashback to a thread I posted in July of 2013 and after HRC's performance yesterday 10/22/15 at the Benghazi hearing --I seem to think the same way today ---what do you think?
The team that she will assemble in 2016 is just about unbeatable. First of all, heading it up is her husband Bill who really showed how likable and powerful he was at the 2012 Democratic Convention. There was no headliner at the Republican convention that came close to him. The Clinton's are seasoned politicians and know exactly how to run a campaign. There was a lot of talk about surrogates in the last election, how each of them hit an integral segment of the voting populace and the assembly for 2016 is awesome. Barack and Michele Obama owe the Clinton's a lot. They, and their entire team, will be on hand to support them. They have made great inroads to the Latino vote and most immigrants, not to mention their GOTV efforts in the black community. They alone are an extremely powerful entity that will be backing the Clinton's.
The women vote coming from the entire country will be overwhelmingly for Hillary. In this election Republican women will vote for Hillary more than they have ever voted for a Democratic candidate. First of all, it is an empowering act to make sure that a woman is finally elected President in this country. Second of all the Republican war on women is very real to Republican women and the extreme right scares them. Any reader here knows what I am talking about. And Hillary is white, Republican women found it hard to vote for a black man, but Hillary doesnt have that in her profile.
Her posture as a world figure trumps all of the other candidates that the Republicans can muster. She has made a lot of friends around the world that are long and strong.
Finally, she is smarter than all of them put together. I am such a supporter of her that I dont want to talk about her ruthless side----she will win this one!
When we look at the horrible mess and message that is coming from the Republican side we need a landslide vote for her, and Congress. With the current Republican House and filibustering Senate we need to get our country back on a good track.
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)some of them about her fund raising that will beat the hell out of Citizens United
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)Always Randy
(1,059 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)Okay we need to keep the GOP at bay. I agree.
But then what? Do we actually tackle the real problems facing the country -- which is the complete dominance of everything (including the political process) by big corporate money and the oligarchs? Or do we spend the next eight years enamored by the shiny happy people in the WH, while we continue to get ripped off, and democracy falls further downward into irrelevance.