2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It doesn't bother me that Hillary is courting Republicans [View all]seabeckind
(1,957 posts)It's solid red. Went for Obama in 2008 based on his promises for change then went back to red in 2012. So much for the change.
I can't help thinking that had he been less status quo and go along to get along the state might have turned purple, maybe he would have had some coattails in 2012.
Wasn't to be.
A democrat running on a liberal platform for head of education got more votes than the governor. Way more than the democrat running against him. And that guy is running again.
Ponder that a bit.
We'll see how she does this time. She is anti-charter, anti-voucher, which puts her in opposition to the democratic establishment here.
I'll vote for her. Maybe the poor guy who got gerrymandered out of his seat and turned around to run in a different race. He didn'tget much support out of the democratic establishment either.
Bernie kicked ass in the primary. Hillary mailed it in.
I think Bernie could have carried the state in the general. No chance of that happening with Hillary. Not even against Trump.