Posted on 03/21/2016 9:08:51 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States, and he will have the Democratic National Committee to thank for it. Much has been made of the math of the Democratic nomination, and how it favors Hillary Clintonin large part due to her huge lead in unpledged superdelegates.
Trump is likely to decisively beat Clinton in virtually all of the states that she has performed strongly in so far, and seems poised to win many of the states she lost as well. This leaves her relying heavily on the solidly blue states, which overwhelmingly voted against her in the primaries, suggesting that enthusiasm will not be high with her base. Forget national polling. When one takes a sober look at the electoral mapat who can turn out their base in solidly partisan states and appeal in swing states, based on how the primaries have turned out thus far, the edge is cleanly with Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
But it gets worse:
Trump has a large and passionate base. And while many Republicans are not comfortable with Trump, they passionately hate Hillary Clintonand faced with such a stark choice, most would vote for Trump if only to deny Clinton the White House.
The same cannot be said on the other side:
A large number of Democrats cannot bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstancesand while many of these are unlikely to vote for Trump, they may well stay home on Election Day. Already, in the primaries so far, Republican turnout has been far outstripping that of Democrats.
All of this bodes ill for Hillary Clinton in a general election.
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In Minnesota, the Democrat party is called the DFL. Means Democratic-Farm-Labor Party
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