If Hillary accepted the slot and the ticket won, and if Obama did not meet a mysterious demise before Jan. 20, 2017, her chances of winning a term in her own right in 2016 would not be good...after four more years of Obamugabe the economy will be in worse shape than it is now. It's rare for a party to hold on to the White House in three successive elections. That George H. W. Bush won in 1988 was partly because of Reagan's enduring popularity and his successful economic policies, and partly because of the ineptitude of the Democratic nominee.