Elections Democratic Road to 2016 Primary Thread

Somehow this just popped into my head:

Hillary is the odds-on favorite to win the presidency. If she also gets re-elected, Democrats will have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.

And the lone Republican popular win (Dubya in 2004) came in very particular circumstances- two wars, the public feeling like they need to "stand by their leader" and things of that sort.

7/8 is pretty staggering. Republicans truly are going extinct.
 
Possum Jenkins said:
Somehow this just popped into my head:

Hillary is the odds-on favorite to win the presidency. If she also gets re-elected, Democrats will have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.

And the lone Republican popular win (Dubya in 2004) came in very particular circumstances- two wars, the public feeling like they need to "stand by their leader" and things of that sort.

7/8 is pretty staggering. Republicans truly are going extinct.
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They are lagging in adapting to new policies. They took to long clinging to Karl Rove and Fox News senior citizens for what they should be doing them. They have paid for it.
 
Lead Salad said:
They are lagging in adapting to new policies. They took to long clinging to Karl Rove and Fox News senior citizens for what they should be doing them. They have paid for it.
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They're split also on how to move forward. Many recognize that they need to rethink their stances on some issues to attract more moderates and younger voters, but on the flip side of that many feel like they haven't done enough to energize their base to have them turn out at polls and think that going even further right is the best answer. They're pulling themselves apart. I tend to side with the former, they need to make small changes to catch up with the times.
 
Mainez said:
They're split also on how to move forward. Many recognize that they need to rethink their stances on some issues to attract more moderates and younger voters, but on the flip side of that many feel like they haven't done enough to energize their base to have them turn out at polls and think that going even further right is the best answer. They're pulling themselves apart. I tend to side with the former, they need to make small changes to catch up with the times.
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That base has cause the party to run on "Repeal Obamacare" for six damn years while doing nothing else productive to run on. Republicans could've came up with a substantial energy bill but instead focused on a stupid single pipeline. They could've worked on immigration (I'll give them some credit that they tried) but instead, they made it seem like a non-issue (Boehner said this).

Then we had the government shutdown.

So far, the GOP can look back at it's national stage presence and see:
1. Stalled on everything
2. Complained about Obamacare
3. Tried to get a pipeline bill approved, couldn't even get a vote passed with majority
4. Allowed a government shutdown


They have failed as a party because they rather sit back like assholes with the realization that they are the only opposing option to the Democratic party. They almost have taken a break for nearly a decade in trying to get anything done.


Also, the side that is praising them for doing this agenda are 65+ and think things staying still is how America moves forward. I understand Conservatism involves keeping a status quo but it doesn't mean making government even more incompetent and impossible to work. The GOP needs to realize their voters are literally dying by the minute and they need to start working again.
 
Hillary learned from 2008 IMO from what I'm seeing her do in Iowa. Obama out worked her in Iowa in 08. She's basically doing everything he was doing there to get the win.
 
Diamond Jim said:
Hillary learned from 2008 IMO from what I'm seeing her do in Iowa. Obama out worked her in Iowa in 08. She's basically doing everything he was doing there to get the win.
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Not taking any chances that Iowa could think she's taking things for granted and vote O'Malley or somebody else and give them a HUGE boost. Caucus states are funny animals.
 
ShoelessRye said:
Not taking any chances that Iowa could think she's taking things for granted and vote O'Malley or somebody else and give them a HUGE boost. Caucus states are funny animals.
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I agree. She took it for granted last time. She thought her name would give her the win and Obama was in the state working. Going to the small local gatherings and hitting up the people. She seems to be doing the same so far, granted its only been a week.
 
Diamond Jim said:
Hillary learned from 2008 IMO from what I'm seeing her do in Iowa. Obama out worked her in Iowa in 08. She's basically doing everything he was doing there to get the win.
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Democratic rival attacks Hillary Clinton for shifting positions

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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), who is considering entering the 2016 presidential race, took some shots at Hillary Clinton before his speech at the Harvard Institute of Politics on Thursday evening.

Clinton, who launched her White House bid last Sunday and is the Democratic frontrunner, has seemingly modified her past positions on giving driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants and same-sex marriage in recent days. O'Malley said he is pleased with Clinton's current positions, but he suggested she has modified them based on "polls."
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Hillary Clinton just thanked Elizabeth Warren for pushing her to the left on Wall Street
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just showered praise on the person whom progressives most want to challenge her in the 2016 presidential race.

In Time magazine's list of influential people, published Thursday, Clinton wrote the two paragraphs applauding Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) for being a "progressive champion."

"It was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted Kennedy's mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts
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Will Hillary Clinton Embrace Social Security Expansion?

The Senate Democratic caucus united behind Elizabeth Warren last month to support an amendment that would expand Social Security benefits. Everybody from Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist, to Joe Manchin, one of the caucus's most conservative members, backed the measure during the vote-a-rama.

It was a non-binding budget amendment and it failed, but many progressives quickly sought to parlay it into something more meaningful, evidence of "tremendous momentum" for expanding Social Security benefits within the party. They had an audience of one in mind: Hillary Clinton.

It will be easy enough for Clinton to attack Republicans and run against cutting benefits or privatizing Social Security. But the real choice will be whether to go even further and embrace expansion as Senate Democrats overwhelmingly did last month.

If they can't have Warren run for the White House, the left wants to shape the Clinton candidacy in the Massachusetts senator's image. Expanding Social Security will be one metric to measure that endeavor.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Said to Hire Former Wall Street Cop as Campaign CFO
Hillary Clinton is planning to name Gary Gensler, a former top federal financial regulator and strong advocate for strict Wall Street rules, as the chief financial officer of her campaign, according to a Democrat familiar with the decision.

Gensler, in his role as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was a leading player in the drafting and then implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, the financial rules that President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010 in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Gensler also served in President Bill Clinton's Treasury Department.

For Clinton, who has been fighting her left flank
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All I can say to Democratic voters as primary season approaches is - vote your conscience. The democrats have significant structural advantages in the national electorate this cycle and there is literally no need for them to nominate Hillary.
 
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