Ted Cruz thinks Hillary Clinton would beat Jeb Bush
Ted Cruz thinks Hillary Clinton would beat Jeb Bush Sen. Ted Cruz is taking a direct swing at Jeb Bush and in the process exposing the radicalism that the GO...
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One might be able to excuse Democratic spin before the election returns came in. But former Newsweek reporter Andrew Romano offered a real beaut the morning after at Yahoo News, titled How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms."
Many of the candidates that the Clintons backed in this cycle went down to defeat. While Romano isnt denying 2014 was a good year for Republicans, he could not wait to start shaking the pom-poms for how Hillarys path is greased for the White House. This is the article that liberals will want to read after they put their handkerchiefs down:
But heres the thing: In politics, the easy answer isnt always the only answer, and the winner of an election isnt always the one who benefits most. Take a closer look at demography, geography and the road ahead for the parties, and its clear that the long-term winner of the 2014 midterms wasnt the GOP at all. The long-term winner, in fact, wasnt even on the ballot this year.
Her name is Hillary Clinton.
Of course the GOP is celebrating right now, as it should. Any election that ends up putting Republicans into the governors mansions in Illinois and Maryland is worth getting worked up about. But under the surface, almost everything about last nights midterm results and the map, the math and the legislative morass that lies ahead in the run-up to 2016 suggests that the former first lady and secretary of state will have a better next two years than the party currently guzzling champagne.
Which is not to say that Clinton herself will necessarily be an unbeatable candidate. She spent the past two months holding 45 campaign events in 18 hard-fought states, but almost all the big candidates she stumped for lost, from Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky to Bruce Braley in Iowa. Many will say her campaign skills are still rusty and she certainly wont be heading into 2016 with many chits to cash in. But that doesnt change one simple fact: Even a huge GOP victory shows how much catching up the Republican have to do if they want to defeat Hillary in 2016....
In other words, for every Senate seat that Republicans flipped in 2014, theres one or more thats likely to flip back to the Democrats in 2016. The chances that the GOP will still control the upper chamber of Congress after 2016 are slim.
How does this help Clinton? By giving her an added boost on an electoral playing field that already favors a Democratic presidential nominee. In the last six elections, 18 states (plus Washington, D.C.) have voted for the Democratic candidate every single time.
This means that Clinton, assuming shes the nominee, will start out with 242 electoral votes in 2016; shell need only 28 of the remaining 183 tossups to win the election. To defeat her, the Republican candidate will basically have to run the table in the purple states not a game plan with a high probability of success, according to Republican pollsters Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse. Making matters worse is the fact that Republican senators will already be playing defense in several of these states, attracting additional Democratic attention and resources that will ultimately bolster the candidate at the top of the ticket as well.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign is quietly beginning to take shape.
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Washington (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton has spent the final moments of the midterm campaign season publicly deflecting the flurry of questions about her likely run for president.
But behind the scenes, her campaign machine is quietly whirring to life.
Clinton insiders have begun to approach Washington-based Democratic operatives who may play a role in a potential campaign and are soliciting their recommendations on other possible staffers, according to Democrats familiar with the conversations.
A number Clinton associates are compiling staffing lists, according to multiple Democratic sources. Michael Whouley and Minyon Moore of the Democratic communications and consulting firm Dewey Square Group are one conduit to Clinton's inner circle and among the primary compilers of the campaign universe that will surround Clinton, should she run.
The firm is led by veteran players in Clinton world. Whouley was an adviser to Vice President Al Gore and a Clinton campaign aide while Moore is a longtime Clinton confidante.
Ginny Terzano, head of communications for Dewey Square, said the characterization is "incorrect."
"DSG officials have no role" in a potential Clinton campaign, she said.
Operatives at the firm are reviewing possible Clinton staffers "under the guise of spitballing ideas," as one Democratic source put it.
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Hillary Clinton speaks to empty seats in Maryland
Hillary Clinton went down the Maryland to help campaign for a fellow democrat and it appears nobody was interested in listening to what she had to say.
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