Let’s look at the math. Obama (with charm and enthusiasm) pulled 69 million votes in 2008. Four years later, with less charm and enthusiasm, he generated 59 million (roughly ten million less).
When you look at the boring campaigns of Romney (57.1 million in 2012) and McCain (59.5 million)....you start to wonder about this.
I would say this...there is practically no way that she can top Obama’s 2012 59-million vote count. At best...you can figure 5-to-10 less less than that. So if Trump just does as well as Romney, then he wins.
For Hillary, this was the lowest enthusiasm campaign that I’ve seen in forty years. If the DNC had played fair with Bernie, and he had some more effort into the south....I think Bernie would have beaten her.
Berning resentment, so to speak, will tax the Democrat vote.
Hillary's strategy in 2016 is the same, on steroids--"don't vote for Trump--he's a horrible person." No argument needed as to why to vote for her (of course her sock puppets keep reciting the mantra that she is the best-qualified person ever to run, putting Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Ronald Reagan, and even her own husband in the shadows of her greatness).
I saw a Hillary ad this morning on "Fox & Friends" that was entirely about Trump being too scary to vote for--no positive reason for Hillary was offered.
You can see in the rare instances of her before a crowd at a campaign event. The media doing the reported has to go to PIXAR to make their magic in manipulating the crowd pictures in GGI.
“So if Trump just does as well as Romney, then he wins.”
Ahh but they have already begun to push the meme that Trump will win a popular vote landslide but lose the electoral college. That is what Soros was quoted as saying in one article I read yesterday. At the same time they also say that Trump has no chance whatsoever but how can he win a popular vote LANDSLIDE and have no chance in the electoral college. Talk about muddying the water!