If somehow Hillary does NOT get the nomination, I wonder if she will do a full Lieberman...

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42. I am pretty certain this universe is real, and not an alternate one.

You assume the parties would support Trump and Sanders. The party did *not* support McGovern. Much of the party establisment actively supported Nixon in the '72 election.

Look at Claire McCaskill. What do you think she is going to say when asked if she now supports Sanders since he got the Democratic nomination? She will probably say something along the lines of, "as far as I know Bernie is still a communist".

Allison Grimes would not admit having voted for Obama!

Bill Clinton's entire '92 campaign was spent disassociating himself from the party. He claimed that he, not Bush, would be the better at "reining in" the Democratic congress. And that strategy is now the Democratic campaign strategy in much of the country.

There is substantial evidence that the party establishment would disassociate themselves from Sanders should he get the nomination.

And Republicans are equally disturbed by the thought of a Trump nomination. Party apparatus from one or both parties could very well work for an Independant unity ticket. Or current Democratic party apparatus for a Clinton/Bayh Independant New Democrat ticket.

Hillary also has a billion dollars at her disposal. She is sitting in a much stronger position than any previous Third Party ticket in over a century.