Hillary was 11th Most Liberal Senator during her time in the Senate

[Adrahil]

44. I agree. Unfortunately....

As 2010 and 2014 show, even some democrats are swayed by bullshit mainstream memes, and many are just downright apathetic. At least for the moment, we have to deal with the reality of electoral politics, not the theoretical. This is one reason why we struggle so much on the state level. A lot of Democratic voters don;t even pay attention to state politics and the GOP engineered super-majorities in the state houses of states that shouldn't have super-majorities, going by the demographics. They are using those majorities to gerrymander the fuck out of their states to concentrate democratic votes in as few districts as possible. They'll keep doing that as long as they can, to maintain a minority rule over this country. Demographics are on out side, so they will attempt to screw with voting rights as much as they can to blunt democratic clout at the polls and delay their downfall as long as they can, or perhaps even maintain indefinitely.

The ONLY bullwark to that is a Democratic President and the judges and justices they can appoint to prevent these perversions of the Constitution.

So while I agree that if all democrats got out and voted, this would be a shoe-in, the reality is they WON'T all get out, and we need the candidate who has the best chance to winning against the GOP candidate. In my view, that's Hillary.

But I don't expect everyone to agree with me, so by all means, advance a Candidate, and let's have the primaries. Then let's do our best to to get the nominee elected, even if they were not our first choice. I don't, for example, think O'Malley would be the best nominee. But if he were nominated, I would donate to him and work my ass off to get him elected.