2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If we nominate Hillary, we give up a huge advantage we'd have with independents; she's negative 42% [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)The Republicans don't need an actual crime to impeach, they will invent one out of whole cloth, or take advantage of her stupidity about keeping an unsecured mail server.
It is hard to claim that the email issue is going "nowhere" when a federal judge just said she may be required to testify under oath about the issue and they have granted immunity to her IT guy who installed it.
Now do I beleive she had "criminal intent" or committed a crime? Not really, but what I think is irrelevant, it's what the FBI and a federal judge think that matters and she left herself wide open to this by her own actions.
The independent vote is how you win elections and right now HRC is NOT polling well with independents. Meanwhile, her surrogates and supporters are also doing their damndest to piss off Millennial voters.
So, she is very likely the nominee, unless she gets drags into the machinery over the email server. Then she has to win the general election, not a certainty by any means, then she has to deal with a congress that hates her more than Obama.