Most Democrats Want Clinton to Run in 2016

[whatthehey]

64. None at all; please by all means talk about and even enable change

But a few thousand or tens of thousands of protest votes will not make a President.

They might however, as in 2000, tip the balance to the candidate with the boot instead of the mitten.

When 3rd parties can win and not just be spoiler candidates, it will be sensible to vote for them in swing states. Until then it's asking for the boot.

How then can change be brought about? Couple of ways possibly. You could groom a Ventura style celebrity with about 80 more IQ points and much thicker skin who could raise the billion or so needed through star power alone, and then hope they can succeed with no party machinery support in the legislative branch, or you could build that change from local races on up either by a third party or pushing the Dems leftward, getting council seats then mayors then Reps then governors etc.

I'm fine with either. I could very easily be persuaded to support either. But don't waste my time asking for support or dollars for spoilers who have zero chance of actually achieving whatever wonderful policies they come up with. Plenty of barroom philosophers have great policies. Heck I flatter myself into thinking I have a few myself, but I have zero chance of being elected and therefore zero chance of making them happen. I'd much rather have Obama or Clinton or Schweitzer who all are to my right but actually can get something done where that something is far preferable to Romney or McCain or Rubio who are much further to my right and the only other choice.