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In reply to the discussion: Hillary can't win.....period [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I think the Hillary Clinton supporters simply don't understand how intensely disliked she is outside of a core of loyal followers. They don't get how many out there in the fundamentalist world absolutely don't think a woman should be President, and they will surely show up to vote against her.
There is not an enormous untapped yearning for a woman President that will make millions of otherwise Republican voters come over and vote for the woman nominee. Think about it. If the Republicans nominated a woman, would any of you reading this jump ship and vote fo9r her just to see the first woman President?
I didn't think so.
And as stupid as the flap over Benghazi or the email thing might be, do you really think the Republicans, if she's the nominee, will for one minute not bring those up?
If she gets the nomination, we can only hope the Republicans nominate someone even easier to hate, maybe Bobby Jindal, and I'm going to guess that the turnout will be incredibly low.
More to the point, I think it would be a huge mistake to go back to the same political family, for either party, to select a nominee. What we need more than anything is some new people to be running.