Republicans said they needed the House to repeal Obamacare. So voters gave them the House in 2010. Then Republicans said they needed the Senate. So voters gave them the Senate in 2014. Then Republicans said they needed the Presidency. So voters gave them the Presidency in 2016. And look at what the GOP did with the Presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress,

the presidential election is about personalities not policy

if it was about policy only Trump would never have won

DNC always gives the blueprint of where the country is going, GOP pretends to resist for 5-10 years until it supposedly unwilling capitulates.

if he can keep coming up with nicknames and dominate the media landscape he has a good chance to win

In that case if Beto is the nominee Trump is toast.

@callietheroux that's what "drain the swamp" refers to

beto, more like beta

dingus

besides @Thomas O'Malley you argued here not too long ago that Democrats will never have a white male as their nominee again

Liberals are salivating over Beto the same way they did over Obama and Kennedy.

Irish ain't white

umm whhat

I'm not saying Beto will be the nominee. But if he is he'll win.

he's good nickname fodder

Beto gets women's panties moist, and they'll turn out in droves to vote for him.

like Jeb and Marco

Isn't democracy wonderful?

too fake

Obama and Kennedy were fake too.

they had no real opposition

Romney and McCain were not serious candidates

Not true, Kennedy almost lost the 1960 election to Nixon.

You're right about Obama however.

Kennedy was also much more charismatic than Obama and Beto combined

wouldn't you agree that Trump is a better candidate to run against Obama-like facades

Better than Romney or McCain, but if Trump ran against Obama, he would lose.

i disagree

i think he would have won

by taking the rust belt

Black people turned out in huge numbers to vote for Obama.

Obama received more votes in the Rust belt than Trump.

and they aren't hugely represented in Florida, Michigan and Ohio

Trump could win Florida over Obama, but not the rust belt.

the circumstances in 2008 and 2016 were a lot different

what decides the election is whhether there will be an economic crisis

exactly, people were tired of 8 years of neocon bs

What? Of course there are black people in Florida, Michigan, and Ohio.

Detroit is in Michigan.

not significantly enough to outright swing the states @Thomas O'Malley

Yes they can swing those states.