Is there any room here for someone who will vote for Hillary, but

[karynnj]

56. This should be no different than 2004, 2008 and 2012

In each election, you would not be appreciated if you said you would be voting against the Democratic nominee. However, there were PLENTY of posts critiquing the Democratic campaign and being less than a big fan of the nominee. It would be a pretty useless discussion board if there was no real discussion of issues.

From those elections, my own view is that if we want to help the nominee, one thing that could help is to celebrate those things about the nominee that almost all of us agree with. For instance, all the work the just out of Yale Law School work Clinton did. The goal would be to select where we agree rather than speaking of holding our noses or a choice being the lesser of two evils. It is always easier to convince others with positive arguments.

For me, this comes from looking at the past elections. I have often said that I think Begala and Carville were absolutely useless - or worse - in 2004. They made snarky comments about Bush, but rarely found anything good about Kerry -- bizarrely speaking in terms better suited to the primaries, that he was just ABB. What does it say that 2 of the most prominent Democrats on TV could only say that the nominee was better than the Republican? Ironically, 4 years later they spoke extensively about SCHIP - that started as Kerry/Kennedy - with Kerry, who was on the Finance committee, writing some parts of the bill that remained in SCHIP - as the junior partner on this bill to his mentor Ted Kennedy.

HRC was not my first choice in 2008 or 2016, but I intend to try to keep that criticism that I have often made in mind, and look for good things that HRC did.