[supercat]

But I’m not sure that Rats - and expecially the ytounger ones - would think that way. They might be very willing to simply throw the dice on Obama.

Or they might decide that they just couldn't stand Hillary.

Frankly, I suspect that both parties could run a ham sandwich for office and a significant number of voters would prefer it to any remaining candidate.

[supercat]

Correction: either side could run a ham sandwich against its last remaining candidate (whoever that turns out to be in the case of the Dems) and a singificant number of voters would prefer it.

[Marie2]

I would vote for a republican ham sandwich over and against a democrat ham sandwich!

[GVnana]

I suspect that both parties could run a ham sandwich for office and a significant number of voters would prefer it to any remaining candidate.

Agreed. This is not a big ideological contest. It's going to be a fight over the middle ground.