Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run?

[JDPriestly]

488. Yes. I understand. But you are dealing with opinions.

I was one of the polled by a major polling organization. They give you a couple of choices mayge spanning 6 possible attitudes. There is no measure of the actual opinion of the person being polled. Those polls may be able to predict who will win an election now. But as we all know, the poll results change constantly because people change their minds, because it depends on who is being polled and because people like me do not have an accurate reflection of their true opinion to choose from. That is utterly unreliable.

A poll may say that Hillary is ahead now. In two years, when it is time to vote, Hillary may be way behind.

The issues I am pointing to are issues that are not yet written large in the body politic. But I am quite certain that I can predict that the malfeasance of Wall Street and the banks and the disparity in wealth will be huge issues by 2016 unless the Obama administration finds the courage to really do something about them. Frankly, I don't think the Obama administration will find that courage. I suspect however that as the economy worsens for working people, and it will in the next few years, Republicans will run on the idea that the lagging economy is due to Obama's ACA and to the failure of Democrats to balance the budget.

The only way that we can get economic change that we need is if we elect a Democrat like Elizabeth Warren who will run on the platform of strengthening our economy through higher taxes on the 1% and increased spending on education and infrastructure development. Raising the minimum wage will also be an issue.

These are not Hillary's stances. She will have trouble convincing me or other liberals that she can stand tall on say, a tax on transactions for Wall Street. But we need that if we are to keep our country unified and strong.

By 2016, the word liberal will be defined very differently than it was by your friends who created that chart. The chart is worthless as a tool for deciding which of our politicians will be considered liberal and how liberal by 2016.