2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFinally, Hillary Clinton has a battle on her hands..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sanderss-run-is-no-fairy-tale/2016/01/14/0f0afc50-bb01-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
If you thought the political landscape couldnt be more unsettled, think again. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. Hillary Clinton now faces not a coronation, not a cakewalk, but a contest one she could lose.
Has there ever been a worse election to be an establishment candidate? Certainly not in my lifetime. When a pitchfork-populist billionaire is leading one partys race and a self-described democratic socialist is rapidly gaining ground in the other, I think its safe to say were somewhere we havent been before.
For much of the past year, Clinton led Sanders in national polls by more than 20 points. Now, according to the RealClearPolitics average, her lead has shrunk to less than nine points and the most recent survey, a CBS/New York Times poll released this week, showed just a seven-point gap.
State polls should make Clinton even more nervous. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up. And in New Hampshire, Sanders a longtime senator from next-door Vermont leads Clinton by six points. It is within the realm of possibility that the presumptive Democratic nominee could lose both of the first two states. Then what?
Then what, indeed!
stone space
(6,498 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)and her supporters ran with it for a brief time before getting laughed into submission. Like, a week or two. Republicans picked it up a while after that, and added all their kooky-ass side theories to it.
How can Obama stand her?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)They were useful objects for what he needed at the time. You might say they were tools.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I think I saw a clip too. It's really hard to keep track of all the videos of her misbehaving though.
DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)according to the latest polls (which, taking in the MOE, is a statistical deadheat) and Sanders is ahead of her by 16 % in NH - which means she will surely lose the second primary.
coyote
(1,561 posts)now they have all gone missing. Janeyvee where are you?
bvf
(6,604 posts)making up "funny" names for other DUers.
Busy, busy, busy.
bvf
(6,604 posts)Also from the piece, regarding her most recent broadside against Sanders:
Such careful and misleading parsing of language can only be called Clintonesque and only be read as a danger sign. I cant help but recall how Bill Clinton invited a backlash in 2008 by calling the Obama candidacy a fairy tale. Maybe Hillary Clinton should try leaving the family at home.
There's that word again: "Clintonesque."
I love Eugene Robinson.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I noticed the word Clintonesque, too, and that is one of the things I don't want to go back to. As for Hillary leaving the family home, well, apparently they are all alike.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)only 5 or 6 positive for hillary. a few from rw loons. the rest all for bernie