"16 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Will Win 2016"

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39. Oh, no, csg. There's a LOOOONG history of Hillary hate in the RW. Vince Foster, travelgate, etc.,

it's all bullshit, of course, but all that will be dragged into the campaign. That's no reason to not nominate/vote for Clinton if you like her, but you will not believe the creatures that will come out of the woodwork to vote against her if she runs.

"Scary black man" didn't work last time because lots of people of color came out for a historic vote, and lots of white Dems were happy about it, too. Plus, of course, he spent his campaign sounding like a real liberal -- how were we to know he wasn't? It didn't hurt that the RW challengers in both elections were so crazy scary.

I don't think there will be quite the 'historic vote' bump for Clinton because she'd be the first woman; there's still quite a bit of misogyny hiding out there, even among women themselves. I could be wrong about that, tho.

My fear is that the Pubs will smarten up and enter a candidate who's NOT a complete moron/scary guy/drooling religious nut. I don't know where they'll find him/her, but I'm not up on Pub up-and-comers.