[kearnyirish2]

I see more people waking up, but don’t underestimate the number of your countrymen that are ardent supporters of socialism. While 2008 was a fluke against a horrible candidate, 2012 was a deliberate selection of a communist by a majority of Americans that voted.

[RayChuang88]

I disagree. Remember, in 2012 two important sectors of the economy--technology and finance--were already recovering from the 2008 crash and that proved to be a difference in the coastal states.

But 2016 may be different: we're already seeing a slowdown in the economy and if the drought situation in California--where a huge fraction of the American food supply is grown--gets critical, you will a recession by the end of this year like what happened in 1979-1980. And we know what happened in 1980: an unabashed political conservative named Ronald Wilson Reagan won the election in a huge landslide. And we now have the first unabashed conservative since 1980 in the race with Ted Cruz.