2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If HRC IS nominated, she will HAVE to get every Sanders voter behind her to win... [View all]Puglover
(16,380 posts)And it has nothing to do with folks on DU. It has nothing to do with politically savvy people. It has to do with people like my old pal Maren at work that has never voted in her life. That has a vague idea of who the Clintons are. That could not tell you what the 3 branches of government are if her life depended on it.
But she knows who Trump is. Not what he stands for politically but that he is "entertaining". He speaks outside the box and not like a boring plastic politician. She couldn't tell you the make up of the supreme court but knows every episode of the Kardashians. (sp?) And she has no idea of just how important government is. And if you don't think "Maren" makes up a huge part of the electorate think again.
I DO NOT WANT TRUMP TO WIN. But people out there have little love for Hillary. But then again the cynic in me wonders if Bernie would have made that much difference anyway. I hope these people say home.
Both of them have so much ugly baggage true or not true. If nothing else what an interesting election season it is going to be. And any democrat that is smugly sitting "Oh what a route this is going to be" is simply a fool IMHO. And really if Hillary does utterly demolish Trump will happily have this post shoved in my face after the election.