2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Hillary supporters don't understand [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)And that's how deeply disliked she outside of a relatively small core of Democrats, including the DNC. The do not realize that if she is nominated, people who haven't voted in years, or never voted before, will crawl out of the wood work to vote against her in the general election. Part of that is pure sexism, people who believe no woman belongs in public life, let alone in the White House as President. But more of it will be people who for various reasons, not all of them entirely rational, simply dislike her and don't want to see her there. That last includes a great many Democrats who see clearly what a terrible choice she would be as our nominee, for so very many reasons.
Back last year when it looked like Hillary and Jeb would each coast to their party's nomination, I said that if the choice came down to the two of the we'd probably see the lowest voter turnout in a very long time, because neither one of them was well liked even within their own party. Plus, the very last thing the electorate as a whole really wants is a choice between two quasi-dynastic families, intent on sharing the White House. It looks as if the current Bush is totally out of the running, and we have to wait a while to see if the current Clinton goes the same way.
And honestly, I expect a huge resurgence of the PUMAs this year. Hope I'm wrong.