Republicans The GOP's Presidential Candidates

I'm not so sure in either case. The republicans are certainly fragmented and directionless and seem to be on the wrong side of many vital election issues and making a lot of noise about it. And the Democrats seem to have unassailable established candidate who is cleverly playing things close to her chest.

But these are exactly the scenarios in which unexpected candidates appear and catch fire with a message or an image that resonates and changes the Game of Elections. Hillary was in exactly the same position in 2008 when Obama came out of nowhere at a time when the voters wanted someone just as far away from George Bush 2 as they could get. George Bush 1 was a war victor and the most experienced person in Washington but lost to Bill Clinton, a southern governor nobody ever heard of over the economy.

It's early and I suspect that some serious new players could emerge yet. A more pragmatic republican maybe, or a younger democrat. Someone that can swing the moderates.

 

Don't tell me you are joining the local Hitler Youth in that tired old narrative. First of all the country is purple. The last couple of elections reveal that the country is far from "pretty much red". And neither is the "media" blue. If you think so, then you don't listen to the radio, where Rush Limbaugh and about 1,000 morning DJ's are extremely conservative. They dominate talk radio. Likewise Ann Coulter and her ilk dominate political books. The most-watched TV news show is FOXnews, hardly blue. The rest of cable news is mostly balanced, except for MSNBC. Really the only part of the "media" that is extremely blue is Hollywood movies. And perhaps the dying broadcast news networks, who are trying to maintain a niche in a satellite/cable world.

On this we can agree.

 

HWR and I agree on a great many things. You and I agree that the sky is blue.