Again, if the Rs can't beat Hillary they need to hang it up. She is the ultimate poster child of what is wrong with america. She has plenty of red meat and low hanging fruit just waiting for someone to tee off on.
You guys are making the same mistake you made in 2008 and 2012. You assume because you hate her with a passion that makes you blind, everyone else does, too.
Bingo.
And seeing the utter clowns vying for the GOP nod, even if some voters don't like her (and millions upon millions DO like her), they are going to vote for her.
I had Democratic friends who were furious at me in 2004 as I kept writing that I thought that Pres. Bush (R) was going to be re-elected. Two of them refused to speak with me for a number of years afterward. But the numbers, already back in 2003, were showing a good, solid tenacity for the President where he needed to be competitive and he campaigned well in the 8 battlegrounds that counted. He got Kerry down to +7 in New Jersey, a core Democratic state. He got him down to just +9 in both California and Hawaii, core Democratic states. He scored +25 or more wins in a heap of RED states, margins that rival Reagan from 1980 and 1984. And in Ohio, the aggregate never had him behind, not once. It was close, but as John King said in 2012, referring to vanquished GOP nominee Romnee, "a close 2nd is still 2nd".
And now, this time around, I am seeing a sea of statistical evidence that Hillary is doing far better than a Democrat is ever expected to do. She is WAY ahead in Ohio, much farther ahead than either Obama or Bill Clinton ever were. Excluding Jeb, she is solidly ahead in Florida, she is even more ahead in Virginia and moderately ahead in Pennsylvania. In essence, were the election held today, she would sweep the quadrifecta, and therefore, the election.
She is batting the GOP to a complete draw in North Carolina and Colorado, but doing less well in Colorado than Obama did. CO is her achilles heel. Were the electorate actually "snapping back" to the pre-2008 days, then both North Carolina and Virginia, also Colorado, should actually be off the table for the DEMS. Instead, VA is well on it's way to being cemented into the BLUE WALL and the GOP must now fight tooth and nail to retain NC. Together, those two mid-atlantic states are worth 28 EV, essentially, a second Florida (29 EV), if you will.
She has the GOP down to low single digit-margins in GA (or she is plain out winning there), AR, LA, TN, TX, AZ, AK and KS. Yes, KS. I bet that the Dakotas will also both come into play in 2016, not to mention NE-02, ala 2008.
There is not one single state from the BLUE WALL that shows even the slightest of weakness for Hillary. Scott Walker cannot get closer than from 8 points
behind in Wisconsin, often considered the lowest hanging fruit on the Democratic tree.
Nationally, on aggregate, when you average the polls, she is between +8 and +15 over GOP contenders.
And these are the numbers BEFORE her announcement and after the so-called Email-scandal that is no scandal.
It's been a long, long time since the data has pointed to one candidate literally sweeping the field, as we are seeing with Clinton and have been seeing for the last two years, without fail.
Can she lose? Yes, she can, if she screws up really badly. But all see needs is the BLUE WALL +3 more states, maybe, and she is easily over the top.Or, just the BLUE WALL + FL, that would do it, too.
The climb for any GOP candidate is decidedly steeper.
Candycorn's arguments are very solid on this thread.