Hillary Clinton is the OVERWHELMING favorite in the party and will win the nomination handily.

[RBInMaine]

She is DOMINATING the board, WAY ahead nationally, AHEAD in Iowa and New Hampshire, BRILLIANT, ULTRA-QUALIFIED,
and will win the nomination and most likely the general election given the GOP clown parade.

Bernie Sanders is a good man whose heart is in the right place. But a self-declared socialist who spent years bashing the Democratic Party will not win the nomination and could never win the general election. He would make a good Secretary of Labor.

All professional odds-makers and predictive pundits are saying Hillary will win the nomination and win big. Nate Silver and all the rest. They do this for a living. They are correct.

Pipe dreams feel good, but then there's the real world.

[NCTraveler]

1. Said it before and will say it again. You have spunk. Nt

[randys1]

2. Dont say COULD NEVER WIN THE GE, this works for the GOP and not for us.

I understand the passion and the reason you say this, but you are wrong (with all due respect) and it is counterproductive.

I am saying this also to those who say that about Hillary.

[NurseJackie]

4. I think he could win ... any Democrat could win

against this season's gop loonies. What we're offering is so much better than their sideshow. I'm convinced that Hillary will do a better job however.

[99th_Monkey]

6. I appreciate that you are being consistent with your admonishments

about not saying that any 3 of our Primary candidates "can't, won't, couldn't win in GE"

I try to give credit where it's due, so thanks for your consistency on this.

[Duckhunter935]

3. good to know we do not need

any primary voting.

[NurseJackie]

11. The primaries are necessary

to make it official. Things could change and O'Malley could be the nominee if something tragic happens to Hillary or the campaign. But as things stand now, that's not very likely to happen.

[Duckhunter935]

12. Not what the OP is pushing

[NurseJackie]

15. I know. I was agreeing with you.

[Duckhunter935]

17. Thanks

[Roadhouse Mixer]

5. Since Biden officially backed out and the polls

Have had a chance to settle, it is easy to see the trend. I imagine the bernies had high hopes that the Biden 20% would go to their candidate, and that might swing the momentum. Of course that was a childish dream and reality is now smacking them in the forehead. At this point the race is hers to lose. And based on what I have seen, she isn't going to let us down.

[oasis]

26. Excellent post. Welcome to DU.

[winter is coming]

7. If she's as much of a shoo-in as you claim, there's no point in telling us over

and over and over that she's unbeatable. You could just sit back and watch people making fools of themselves.

And yet you don't, which tells me you don't even believe your own spin.

[99Forever]

8. You keep repeating that like you're trying to convince yourself.

Try not to be terribly disappointed when it doesn't happen.


Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay?

[tecelote]

9. Bumper stickers, yard signs and t-shirts say different.

Don't believe everything on the TV.

Look around and talk to people on the street.

Bernie.

[riversedge]

10. I never count my chickies till hatched and will canvas hard in my state. But no doubt Hillary has

the mojo this last month--and I think that will continue.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. she's the overwhelming favorite

of the CAPS LOCK key

[Hepburn]

14. And just as handily lose the general.

[cosmicone]

16. The snowball has started rolling ... Go Hillary!!! n/t

[Hiraeth]

18. I'll take those odds.

[Cha]

19. Oh, but she has "an enthusiasm problem" as some people say.

Thank you, RBMaine!

[kelliekat44]

21. She will make up for this. Bank on it. She will rip each Christie statement to shreds and look

awesome and Presidential doing it.

[Cha]

23. Agree, kellie!

[NCTraveler]

35. I just keep thinking of this with the now solidarity being shown in sig lines. "I got the sucker"

[Fred75]

20. Overwhelming

Every presidential year, WUI (Western University of Illinois) have a fake presidential election, and
have been correct in everyone of them since the early 70's. In the election they just held, Bernie beat HRC 2 to 1. HRC is just more of the same.

[peacebird]

27. I think Hillary folk are in for a huge disappointment, again. 2008 redux.

[frylock]

22. That's nice.

[McCamy Taylor]

24. Most admired woman in the US 17 times.

[djean111]

29. Which has absolutely nothing to do with being a president.

Anyway, I could never admire a person who admires war, fracking, cluster bombs, the TPP, and Wall Street and Henry Kissinger.
No matter what their gender is. Never.

[jfern]

25. 538 has been epically wrong this primary

Webb was supposed to be the anti-Hillary. Trump was supposed to crash and burn immediately. They should stick to averaging the polls to predict general elections a few days before the election and not writing bullshit about primaries months away.

[djean111]

28. No MATTER how MANY times YOU yell AT US in CAPS, we ARE GOING to KEEP SUPPORTING BERNIE.

Those of us who support him now, that is.
Just what is it you are after? No primaries? Mass "submission to the Force"? Not going to happen. Ever.

[Adrahil]

32. Pure evil? LOL, you sound liek my wingnut father-in-law! nt

[Recursion]

39. "Pure evil"?

Oh lord...

[sufrommich]

41. Jesus, some of you have lost all sense

of reality.

[MineralMan]

42. Hyperbole is not an effective campaign strategy.

It does not serve your candidate well at all. I'd think longer before posting, really.

[Betty Karlson]

31. Sanders would put Arizona in play, Clinton would not.

You may want to rethink that argument about electability, because these days, Sanders has the beest chances in the GE.

[Historic NY]

34. How so because the numbers from 08 & 12 don't seem to have changed by much.

2008 John McCain 53.8%
Barack Obama 45.0%

2012 Mitt Romney 53.48%
Barack Obama 44.45%

[Gothmog]

36. Predictwise has Clinton at 91% to be the Democratic nominee

[morningfog]

37. A lot can happen in two months.

Hillary is the juggernaut to be sure, but she is not inevitable. There are any number of things that could totally derail her march.

[randome]

40. Numbers don't lie, do they?

I understand the passion for wholesale change many have but...numbers don't lie, do they?
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