Democrats vs. Republicans, 2016.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

The Democrats have:

Hillary Clinton
Whoever Hillary's VP choice is (Castro, Brown, O'Malley, among other possibilities)
President Obama
Former President Clinton
Elizabeth Warren (if she isn't already the VP pick)
Joe Biden


The Republicans have:

Donald Trump
Dozens of other Republicans who are embarrassed to death that Donald Trump is their nominee


Yeah, I'm beginning to like this after all.

[tonyt53]

1. Pretty much sums it all up. Should be a fun summer.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I'm getting more worried about down ballot races...

all the attention on the Presidential could be defeating the purpose in trying to flip the House/Senate.

I live in a blue district, and will vote incumbant, so not much I can do there, but all should be aware there are other races of equal import to the Presidential.

[Hortensis]

8. Hmm, yes but not too worried yet?

All the primary excitement seems natural given that we just officially identified our unofficial nominee, the big endorsements, and haven't actually finished up the primaries. On the plus side, voter and media attention spans will demand we move on anyway.

Scary, of course, is that the enormously powerful Koch coalition has set itself to keeping the Senate in Republican hands and all of the rest of the down-ballot seats, including notably judgeships. That's where they're already spending much of the better part of a billion dollars they had planned to invest in 2016.

Oh, well. Not looking forward to some inevitable gut-clenching before the end, but am looking forward to watching Hillary, Obama, Biden, Sanders, Warren, and ? take on the GOP as a unified force.

[sofa king]

10. I am less worried now.

The greatest gift that Republican voters could have given us is Trump, who is already set to be a financial disaster for the GOP and appears likely to negatively impact down-ballot elections (as just one example, three million more Hispanic-Americans have registered to vote, and 80% of them are expected to show up on election day).

But the greatest gift that Republican politicians have given us is refusing to consider President Obama's nomination for the supreme court. Suddenly, the lame-duck President gets to run against twenty Republican Senators and make the Senate elections turn on the Supreme Court issue. We could not have planned a better circumstance to add power to the current President's campaigning ability.

Trump is so polarizing that undecided voters--usually a dreadfully ignorant cross-section of voters--will be a non-factor in this election. It's gonna be a straight up minority of white male racists against the majority of Americans who have been offended and targeted by Trump. Not even close enough to steal. Crushing, if only those voters can be convinced to vote all-D, all the way down.

It's not a fifty-state strategy, which we could have used to bag the whole damned thing, but it's close.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. As I understand it, Trump is going to meet with the Koch brother's and compare hands.

Where he probably will be told they will cut his hands off if he doesn't get in line with them.

AS long as Mr. Tiny hands agrees, all will be right in Republican world.
http://www.newsweek.com/koch-brothers-trump-meeting-468532

[Cosmocat]

5. It will be all right for one day

before Trump pops off on some stupid ass $hit again.

He literally is incapable of going more more than one day without saying something completely stupid.

There is no "getting on the same page" with him.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. That is because he couldn't find a page if it was stapled to his ass and he could use both hands.

[beachbum bob]

4. down ballot conservatives gotta think how screwed they are especially when trump

wont lift a finger to help fundraise for them


lovely

[Cosmocat]

7. Since our savior the holy of holiest Reagen

implemented the 11th commandment that Rs may never say bad things about one another, we have never seen elected R officials run from an R nominee like this. Kirk is scared as shit for his seat, and has disowned him. That is the start of it.

[nyquil_man]

9. Don't forget Jeffrey Lord: Master of Logic.