Official 2016 USA Election Center: Trump/Sanders take New Hampshire

[Mr Khan]

the_real_dsister44 said:

generic-user-1 said:

this can happen in one state but not nationwide.  sure, reagan was one of the most stupid people that ever walked this world and bush junior wasnst the brightest possible, but they were real people, they said thinks because they were thinking this is right and not because they were told to or tryed to be someone other...   the only rightwing lunatic that is a real person is ted cruz and he is realy realy mad and his party hates him.

There are plenty of real candidates for the GOP. Bush, Huckabee, Christie, and Walker. Christie has a couple of scandals around him, but so does Clinton. Walker is hugely popular in Wisconsin. The only thing going against Bush is his last name. And Huckabee exists 

Huckabee is a never-was, even within the party. If you want to go presidential, you have to give voters a hook. Huckabee was a GOP governor of an insignificant red state. If you're a governor, you either have to be from a famous family, lead an important state (large or battleground), or be a "play against type" governor (why Clinton from Arkansas had something going for him, while Huckabee from Arkansas had zilch going for him). This is why Walker and Christie have momentum, from blue New Jersey and Wisconsin. Walker's stronger, though, because he's more "ideological" than Christie (who will be haunted in right-wing circles by his cooperation with Obama after Superstorm Sandy in '12) and his scandals haven't stuck (though he certainly has his ethics skeletons).

Clinton is the name to beat unless something happens to tank the economy or we have a major terrorist attack, or start a war, in the next 21 months. The steady US economic recovery will get credited to the Dems, the demographic map is in their favor for Presidential years, and Clinton can sell the middle class with '90s nostalgia (remember the last time you felt well-off without being drowned by credit card debt?).