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HA HA. Nobody knows if Hillary will even be alive in 2016, or in good enough health, or even interested in undergoing the media barrage. And no one knows who the Republican candidate will be. Polls showing Hillary ahead all are in regard to lousy potential candidates. Hillary is notably weak on national security, and highly vulnerable to a good Republican candidate on national security (ex. Peter King, John Bolton, Frank Gaffney, Andrew McCarthy, etc)
None of these guys are politicians or even likable. In case you missed the memo, the GOP has lost its edge on national security, which is what happens when you piss away a Trillion Dollars and 5,000 lives on a personal vendetta based on lies.
The GOP is not going to win on National Security. If they win, it will be on the economy if they can produce a guy who understands the recession isn't just bad because we can't afford a Dressage Horse this year.
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As for your 55% figure, that is just a popular vote poll number. It is inflated, because of ultra-liberal states with high populations (ex. New York & California). Across the country, the overwhelming majority of states oppose SSM and have bans against it (33 states) They also have bans against queers in a long list of things.
Most of those bans were enacted years ago, and the courts are striking them down as unconstitutional. Further, it really isn't going to matter, at a certain point. Corporations are already recognizing same sex marriages, and it's only a matter of time before the rest of DOMA is struck down, making what any individual state does as irrelevant.
I totally disagree with you about Republicans and National Security. I'd say they are strong on that, their only weakness being thei reluctance to raise taxes on the rich, and spend the money that is needed (ex. ICE agents, CBP officers, NSA, FBI, CIA , etc) As for the Middle East wars, they are proving to both be valid as al Qaeda is now recovering power in Fallujah and Masadi, cities that were won at the cost on many US lives.
Likewise, in Afghanistan, the troops are needed to stay there to keep al Qaeda out, keep the Taliban in defeat, and be in close enough proximity to Pakistan's 100+ nuclear warheads, to quickly rush in and secure them, if the Pakistan govt were to topple, and the nukes would be in danger of falling into the hands of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other assorted Islamic looneytunes.
As I might have mentioned before, what the courts do now, can easily be reversed if/whenever a Republican govt takes power and changes the composition of the court.
Possibly as soon as January 2017. For now, SSM and other things are still heavily on the prohibition list. Obama has been in office for going on 6 years, has appointed 2 SCOTUS justices, and not a lot has changed, In fact, many SCOTUS decisions have been Conservative oriented, such as the recent Univ. of Michigan Affirmative Action case.