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In reply to the discussion: Hillary May Have Just LOST This Campaign [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He drew a crowd of 10,000+ in Madison, Wisc. today.
It's way too early to predict the outcome of this race.
None of the Republicans are electable. Trump and Christie are mean-spirited. They will get on people's nerves. We are basically, a generous, kind people. Jeb is affable but not charismatic and probably not sufficiently born-again for the Religious Right. And he has his brother's failures to answer for. Huckabee????? Not a serious candidate. Jindal? Again, just not charismatic. Comes across as insecure. Scott Walker has the least negatives but is no match for either Hillary or Bernie. He seems to much like a good boy with no original ideas and will not do well on foreign policy. Plus his anti-union stances will hurt him in some states -- major states. It's not that he will lose the union vote. It is that union members will double-down on campaign and get-out-the-vote efforts to defeat Walker. (Have you ever been in a campaign in the get-out-the-vote stage when the union members start walking? Whew! It is a sight to behold. All these great big guys show up to hang reminders on voters' doors. Lindsay Graham should have known better than to put his name up. No way are Republicans going to put him in the White House. They will find all kinds of excuses, and we will know the real reason. He won't get started with Republicans. If he had been a liberal, he would have a chance.
Bernie has the most charisma and if he wins the primary will go on to win the general. The Republican field is too weak to win.