2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton opposes breaking up the megabanks, opposes reinstating Glass-Steagall [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)The voters want a candidate not indebted to these banks and Wall Street. They will appreciate finally being able to vote for such a candidate. We Democrats outnumber the Republicans. With Sanders there is incredible enthusiasm amongst the voters, especially younger voters who often stay home.
The Republicans can only nominate someone who's in the pocket of banks and Wall Street. Even amongst Republican voters there's a lot of disgust at the Trillions of dollars in fraudulent ripoffs by the banks and Wall Street. Many will stay home if the focus is on how it's their party who is running a lackey for these types.
Lack of voter enthusiasm for a compromised candidate has been a huge problem for Republicans in the past. It's why the elder Bush lost.
The outrage is out there, amongst all the voters. Our problem is that too many of our candidates can't bite the hand that feeds them and so they can't effectively tap into that.
Know thy enemy. The enemy has, hypocritically, been making hay on how cozy our elected officials are with business interests. TPP is a good example of that.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/16196/rightwing_coalition_opposes_tpp_calling_it_obamatrade
Though our party is held in contempt by many Republican voters there's also a lot of loathing amongst many Republican voters for their corrupt candidates. Many of them stay home on election day because of that and many more will likely feel like doing that with an honest politician like Sanders as the Democratic candidate.
On the other hand, Clinton Derangement Syndrome is likely to overcome the contempt they have for their weak candidates. We'd likely still win with HRC, but our odds will be better with Sanders, a candidate without baggage, or the bullseye for hatred.