Posted on 05/27/2016 6:20:00 AM PDT by maggief
Its a terrifying moment for Democrats: Hillary Clintons double-digit lead in national polls has evaporated and panic is beginning to set in. Polls now show Donald Trump ahead of Clinton, or at worst only a few points behind. During the insanity of the Republican primary, it was easy for them to believe that Trump could never be presidentthat in a general election, mainstream voters would regard him as an absurdity. But Clinton remains a shaky candidate with historically high negatives, an email scandal that keeps getting worse and a stubborn primary opponent whose supporters may yet become a midsummer nightmare in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the Republicans, seemingly in all-out civil war just weeks ago, have quickly fallen in line. Democrats are resigning themselves to a tough, ugly, painful and expensive street fight.
The numbers offer some reassurance for Democratsbut also some bad news.
The reassurance is that the recent polls probably dont mean much. Trumps current surge is likely driven by Republican voters coalescing around their nominee, and Clinton will almost certainly get a similar bump when Bernie Sanders lets go and Democratic voters return to the fold. Most pundits believe 2016 is still Clintons race to lose.
Heres the bad news: There is now a clear path for her to lose it.
If you drill down enough, its clear there are at least four paths to a loss, and any one of them poses a real risk for a candidate likely to follow her usual careful, calculating playbook. The cold math of a potential Clinton defeat is not to be found in national polls, but in the Electoral Collegeand within each states unique demographics and culture. Trump wont dramatically remake the political map, but he doesnt need to. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Any Dem at this point have the capital “L” on their backs for LOSERS.
Trump in a landslide.
“Can you think of a theme to Hillary’s campaign?”
I am not a crook?
How Hillary! wins:
The most blatant cheating in any US election, ever.
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