As you say Obama isn't running again. And Clinton, or whoever the Democrats run, won't have much trouble differentiating themselves from him.
Bad Democrats are bad Democrats. Generalization is a powerful force, especially when it will be reinforced by the R’s
I am not sure that is a true statement.
Hilleary was Obamas Secretary of State. She oversaw a disastrous foreign policy. She did a lot of nothing and what was done under her tenure was a failure. The country and the world is in far more danger than before Obama. Either Obama wanted it that way and she stayed the course, did not resign and did not speak out against those policies or she agreed with him. Any way you look at it, she was a failure.
Any Democrat in congress who runs has a record of voting Obamas way. Failure. Few spoke out against any Obama policy and when they did it was a weak decent. The vast majority vigorously defended Obama at every turn.
The public record condemns every Democrat as an Obama yes man. They can run away from Obama but he is a tar baby that will stick to them where ever they go.
But whoever is nominated will be white washed by the press so it will be a race that the Republicans will have to work hard to win.