2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who would ever want to ask our young people to scale back their dreams and goals? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)You should have more faith in his judgement
It is impossible to stall the process for a year, and even the Republicans know it, but if this has awakened some who have not been paying attention. We need to use that awakening to ensure the candidate with the best chance of winning the GE gets the nominations in spite of the David Brock channeling Rove and the new corporate money (thanks to DWS overriding Obama) put in play to help the one that does the least well in head to heads with Republicans.
Hillary does the worst with young voters and those that are less affluent (a very small percentage of the electorate make over $200,000 a year). She also has an unfavorability rating overall 56% so high, she would almost surely be the one to lose the GE.
Independents don't like Hillary, they see her as dishonest by a wide margin and her unfavorability ratings among them are over 60%. They are also a much larger voting block than Democrats so this is an important consideration.
On the other hand unfortunately, although not as large a voting block as Independents the Republicans would have a record turn out because their loathing for her is legendary.
I fully expect Obama to replace Scalia with a better judge, but we need a Democrat in the WH because some of those other judges are getting rather old.