Monday, 16 May 2016

Never underestimate the Democrats’ ability to blow a presidential race

Democrats should be nervous about Donald Trump. Well, more specifically, they should be worried about Democrats.

Yes, demographics favor the Democrats in modern presidential elections, and yes, Trump is a spectacularly flawed candidate. But you’d almost never lose money betting on the Democrats blowing a good thing.

Hillary Clinton has her own weaknesses as a candidate, as others havenoted, frequently, but this article isn’t about Clinton. This is about Democrats, the American political party that most resembles a Hollywood dark comedy about going home for the holidays.

If you start the clock in 2006, the idea of Democrats as hapless self-saboteurs might sound odd. That was the year the party captured the House, the Senate, and a majority of governorships, elevating Nancy Pelosi to the House speakership, thus making her the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government history. Two years later, Democrats elected a black first-term senator to the presidency in a landslide. They re-elected him four years later. For the full article click here 



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