2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Unfortunately it's a fact, some voters will not support Clinton if she is Democratic nominee [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)For any Presidential candidate to gain the WH, they need to have the "disaffected, and marginalized" voters.
Obama got the WH in 2008 because he got the votes of those dissatisfied with the way things were. His vote distribution that year reflected his winning over the progressives who usually don't vote, as well as the RW'ers who were fed up with Bush and business as usual.
Go and listen to videos of discussions in the past about who will win the election of 1988, or 1992, or (again) 2008 and think long and hard about what is being said.
There are only 34 to 36% of all registered voters in this country who consider themselves to be Democrats so loyal they will vote for someone or even a dog as long as it has a "D" after it.
And the Republican loyalists tally even lower - at around 22 to 24%.
That leaves over 40% of voters who are looking to see their interests represented.
The meme of "Lesser of two evils" served the DLC for one or two election cycles. But people are waking up - why eat one shit sandwich a day (which I agree, may be somewhat better than being required to eat two of them) when we can work to change everything and get people actually taken care of.