If it is Clinton V. Trump, she can only win if she doesn't tack to the right.

[Ken Burch]

No one to the right of this party is going to vote for her. Ever.

The only votes HRC can get are people who are either loyal Dems or(if she is creative enough)the sort of people who SHOULD be Dems but have been made unwelcome by the party since 1992 or so.

All the Republicans are going to fall in line for Trump...if Ryan did, none of them will hold out. It's not worth even trying to get votes like that. And it's not worth winning if we go back to the '92 or '96 platforms to do it.

With the left, we can win...if we drive them to Stein or to abstentionism, we can't.

[YouDig]

1. Of course people to the right of the party will vote for her.

There are plenty of centrists, people who think like Mike Bloomberg, and she will get a lot of their votes.

[msongs]

2. she will get the obama vote plus all the new people alienated by trump. that's enough.

she will win the majority of sanders people, who in the real world are not much like the sanders people on DU

[Hiraeth]

7. do you go anywhere else on the internet besides DU?

[upaloopa]

3. She is not going to tack to the right.

You have invented a Hillary to rage against. She is nothing like your side says she is. She stands for virtually everything Bernie does except single payer which Bernie and his revolution can try to get through Congress.

[Ken Burch]

6. I'd be glad to be surprised by that.

It's just that I've seen how she's operated since 1992.

[yeoman6987]

12. She has to go left with trade and wars

She does that, she's golden and will win.

[anigbrowl]

4. Really, I don't think your predictive/strategic skills are too good.

I feel you tend to lose sight of the distinction between predictions and preferences and often let your preconceptions bias your analysis.

[Ken Burch]

5. 2000 proves that tacking right causes defeat. n/t.

[Trust Buster]

8. The 15% in the middle determines presidential elections.

[Ken Burch]

9. You win the middle by looking like a leader

Not by dissing progressives. Most people don't have the left THAT much.

Not sure why you do.

[TransitJohn]

10. Expect posts like this to be disappeared soon.

There's a history of it.

[AgingAmerican]

11. And therein lies her dilemma

She is under pressure to tack to the right, but the right loathes her.