Skinner: DU switches to general election mode on June 16, 2016

[Chan790]

218. That knife cuts both ways.

Sanders supporters believe the polls because they confirm their belief that Hillary is a dead-duck candidate that should be forced to withdraw from the process because she can't win the GE, even if she wins the nomination handily.

Hillary supporters believe the polls are meaningless this far out because those polls run contrary to their belief that Hillary will win the Presidency easily against that megalomaniacal short-fingered vulgarian.

Between the two...the Clinton position seems closer to wishful thinking. Data doesn't become untrue because you dislike what it says or believe it needs to be unskewed.

I'm well aware of the procedure...we end up with whoever the GOP-controlled House decides to elect President and the Democratic-controlled Senate selects the VP. The irony there is that I doubt either of those people will be Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton. The first because I don't think the GOP actually likes him being their nominee all that much and the second because I don't think she'd accept the position if elected...it's a career-ender.

Like I said last week...it's a good thing there is no process for the public to vote "None of the above!" and force the parties to nominate different candidates in a second balloting...because that's what the outcome would be of a Trump/Clinton race in that situation: a rejection of both candidates.