Help me out here folks. CNN question.

[warrior1]

Would you be satisfied with a presidential choice of Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton in 2016?

No
57%
7964

Yes
43%
6087

I guess the question is for both, but what if you only want say, Hillary and not jeb. How do you answer a yes or no question when it applies to both.

[graham4anything]

1. That is the 2016 candidates. I pick Hillary45. It's a done deal.

Only thing she did not have in 2008 was Obama's voters like me.
She 100% has me now.
And she will win because

It takes a Clinton to beat a Bush

If one wants the democrats to win, this choice is easy.

any other candidate is playing for the vp
and I would hope the greed disappears from current sitting Senators/Governors/Mayors/House, etc. as we need them to remain in their job til after 2020 election is over

[warrior1]

3. still doesn't answer the question

how to you just say yes to Clinton and not bush?

[hrmjustin]

2. Well I would say if you only want one like me Hillary you say no,because it is asking about them

together.

[warrior1]

4. It would seem only you would know you answer

and everyone else would have the same problem. Then it would seem that who ever voted no didn't want either one.

[HERVEPA]

5. No. It's saying do you want that choice. Period.

You're looking to answer a question that's not asked.

[warrior1]

7. see that's my problem.

I only want Hillary. bush can go pound sand.

[hrmjustin]

6. They should have had a third option.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. The question is, shall we say, poorly worded

You can say you want both or neither. There is no way to say that you would like one but not the other.

[warrior1]

9. well they did say it was

unscientific.

[Journeyman]

10. Easy answer. I don't participate in idiotic polls, especially those run by cable news nutworks. . .

Who but a cable news whore would gang together Hillary Clinton and John Bush? So simply refuse to participate.

Instead, write directly to Clinton and let her know you'll support her in 2016.

That way, your intentions are made known to the one person it matters to, while you don't sully yourself with any involvement -- no matter how tangentially -- with sleaze like John Bush.

[SheilaT]

11. That is a truly stupid poll.

You might very much want Hillary but vastly prefer she run against some other R, such as Sarah Palin.

You might hope like heck that Jeb Bush is the candidate against some other D you vastly prefer, but I won't even attempt to name names here.

It's foolish, IMHO, to think that Hillary will be a serious candidate in four years. She's said she's going to retire, and I suspect she will. She had a good run in '08. Eight years after that we need a completely new slate of Dems to be looking at the Presidency. My personal prediction is not for some specific person to become the nominee, but that it will be someone none of us are thinking about right now. Keep in mind that after Obama's speech at the DNC in '04, everyone said he had a good chance to be President someday, and it was too bad that he would be too young and too untried in '08.

Jeb Bush, if he even bothers to run next time, will feel like a tired choice, because his name has been bandied about since his older brother retired.

Frankly, I'd worry a lot that Chris Christie manages to present himself as a reasonable moderate and gets the nomination. He's not really a reasonable moderate, he just plays one on TV. In reality, he's a wacko.

If we're lucky, the Republicans will wind up nominating an obvious wacko, because their extremists will continue to dominate the entire nominating process, and we'll come up with a sensible, likeable, well-spoken, photogenic candidate with a good enough track record to win.

Let's all just sit back and see what happens in the next two or three years.