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Old 04-27-2016, 09:31 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Maybe so.

But she lost the younger women to Bernie Sanders in the primaries. Young women didn't like her at all. She only polled well with women over 45 years old.

All the younger Democrat women voted for a 74 year old man.

I'm certain that very, very few...if any Republican women will vote for her. Maybe the 21 to 45 year old Democrat women will change their minds about her before the general election.
But all indications from the primaries (Dem voters down 30% from 2012, Republican voters up 70% from 2012) is that the energy and excitement is on the Republican side. More likely those younger Democrat women simply will stay home.

Many more Republicans overall have voted in the primaries than Democrats.
And the only excitement was Bernie Sanders...he's still only around 200 delegates behind Hillary if you count the delegates that were won by getting votes in primaries...but the Democrat Party squashed him with the SUPER delegates and now she's about to clinch the nomination because of that.

So all of their excitement (Sanders) will be gone.

We'll have Hillary in all her glory. Yelling every word the way she does when she gives speeches.
Her opponent will be a guy who has already beaten a field of 16 other contenders. Governors and Senators that he swatted down like flies it seems.

I just can't see how Hillary is going to win. She is so unlikeable and has so much horrible political baggage.

But I can't predict anything. It's just my opinion. I have yet to see ANYBODY in real life or even on the news shows that is excited about Hillary.

I've seen them excited about Bernie. And I've seen them excited about Trump. But Hillary?

Bernie supporters (like my daughter) are pissed about the DNC Super Delegate bullshit.
I think a majority of them are going to stay home.
And I think another percentage of them are going to switch to Trump.

On an NPR call-in show today...Sanders voters were asked who they are going to vote for in the general. Half of them said "Trump".

Bad news for Hillary.
There are a couple things that I think might help Hillary. I read a story on CNN the other day that said Millennials will begrudgingly vote for Hillary if she beats Bernie. That doesn't mean they will, but this one study believes they should. If that happens, she wins. The other is that she as a very low favorability rating, but there is one person running that has an even lower favorability rating and that is Trump. It literally could be an election of 'who do you hate less.'

Personally, I think Hillary will win, but I want Trump to win. I have always said that if you want to progress sometimes you have to embrace the madness. Trump is a real unknown. He could turn out to be a very good president. He might turn out to be a terrible president. Either way his being elected will shake things up and that is a good thing.
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