The general will pit a liberal dem running to the center and the repubs will run a moderate/liberal who ran for the nomination as a conservative running back to center. The problem is that they get to run to the right and the republican has to run left to get to the center. Clear as mud, huh? Add in a biased media and it won’t be an easy task to win.
Unless, of course, the Republicans had the smarts to nominate Duncan Hunter who is on the right, stays on the right and will continue in the general to run on the right.
Democrats OWN racism.
IMHO, during the primary, all the viable dem candidates have taken a whole bunch of leftist positions from which they can’t back down. If, in the general, the GOP runs leftward toward the center (where is that these days?) it would just be plain dumb and, besides, they couldn’t catch up with the dems. In simple terms, the dems are stuck with a radical leftist platform and the GOP isn’t.