New book claims Hillary Clinton is guilty of domestic violence.

[pchang]

This is old news. SS agents told of her throwing things at Bill many many years ago. It pays to be nice to your SS detail.

[onodera]

Which actually raises a nice point.
Assuming clinton's policies were equalitarian ("women friendly") then that's probably why they love him.

Bill's egalitarian policy towards women was "as long as she has a *****, I'm willing to **** her".

[Bereta_Eder]

Fine but that didn't concern the ones he didn't meet.
The question was different though.

[-Jrabbit]

No offense, but I didn't want to seem like I approve of domestic violence the way some are.

You aren't still thinking about voting for her are you?

I plan to decide my vote for POTUS sometime in 2016. I might even wait until after we know who the candidates are.

[Dinner]

The Republicans are really getting desperate.

[rah]

The Democrats already are.

Almost anybody could beat any of the current REPUG front runners.


Hillary makes it more iffy.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hillary is by far the most popular Democratic candidate and has high name recognition (usually popular candidates have low name recognition and as more people know about them, their popularity falls - aka, the Palin effect).

[regexcellent]

The fact that she got in a spate with her husband is pretty ****ing low down her list of problems. If you're willing to overlook her sparkling personality, Whitewater, and pretty much everything she did as secretary of state, not to mention this whole email scandal, the fact that she threw a lamp at Bill after he publicly humiliated her is just not important.

Hillary would have trouble against a number of the Republican contenders. Ted Cruz? No, probably not. But others are a lot more competitive.

[rah]

Hillary has too high a "no way would I vote for that *****" factor.
No other dem would start with that high a hate factor.
Most repub have a similar issue once they open their mouths.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hillary has too high a "no way would I vote for that *****" factor.
No other dem would start with that high a hate factor.
Most repub have a similar issue once they open their mouths.

You know who else had a "no way would I vote for that whatever" factor?

George W. Bush in 2004. The Republicans are running candidates worse than John Kerry. Heck, they are running worse candidates than Mitt Romney who was also facing a a "no way would I vote for that..." factor candidate. Hillary will be fine.

Speaking of W, albeit in 2000, here is FiveThirtyEight:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-is-the-george-w-bush-of-2016/

Now, the generic Democrat and generic Republican are tied in YouGov surveys, yet Clinton holds advantages of 5 to 15 percentage points over possible Republicans, including Jeb Bush.

This was the end of February, but Hillary's polls haven't actually slipped.

[Imran Siddiqui]

To continue... of all the polls taken after March 15 (and even before that as well):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2016

Only Fox News' ( ) March 29-31 poll has a Republican matching Clinton, and that was Jeb Bush, while Rand Paul is in the margin of error.

OTOH, the last ABC/Washington Post poll (March 26-29) has Clinton up by double digits on everyone, but no Rand Paul. However an earlier CNN poll (March 13-15) has Clinton up by double digits on Rand Paul as well.

[regexcellent]

Scott Walker's election record gives the lie to that statement.

He's inoffensive to every branch of the Republican party, he has strong conservative credentials from his fight with unions, and he doesn't have any of the big social conservatism flags that energize the Democratic base. And he's been elected three times even with the Democrats pulling in national organizations to unseat him.

Clinton is actually a weak candidate who has never won a tough election and got smothered in the debates by Obama; she only held on so long in the last primary because she has a huge patronage network that gives her staying power.

I kind of suspect she won't be the nominee, actually; as soon as a viable alternative presents itself people will abandon ship.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Kidlicious]

It's going to really suck if she gets a ***** pass into the White House.

[kentonio]

Scott Walker's election record gives the lie to that statement.

He's inoffensive to every branch of the Republican party, he has strong conservative credentials from his fight with unions, and he doesn't have any of the big social conservatism flags that energize the Democratic base. And he's been elected three times even with the Democrats pulling in national organizations to unseat him.

Much upcoming hilarity I sense in this one..