Serious question: would nominating Hillary Clinton improve or hurt the Democrats' chances of winning?

Question

It seems, like it or not, like the Democrats have the better chance of winning the presidency in 2008.

So I'm wondering: on balance, would nominating Mrs. Clinton help or hurt their chances? What are the pluses and minuses?

Thanks.

Answer 1

On the grander scale of things, I don't know.

On the personal level, it would make me vote Republican or for one of the other free party runners. Call me a nut case if you want, but I get a bad vibe everytime I hear her talk and I can't shake the feeling that if we put her in office we'll be worse off then we are now.

I know it is not a rational or logical reason for not wanting to vote for someone, but I can not explain it any other way. I wish I could, I really do.

~~ Abe

Answer 2

Hillary getting the nod will most definitely hurt the democrats, in an already polarizing election, she further polarizes the republicans and independents. Should Obama or Edwards get the nod and run against the Republicans just on getting out from the war, they will win, Hillary on the other hand has said, voted and showed that she supported the war from the start and will not get any cross-over votes.

Answer 3

i'm one democrat who merely might desire to ought to flow over to the dark ingredient if Hillary gets the nomination. John Edwards it lots extra suitable on women people's subjects than Hillary and that's actual unhappy. For now, i'm going to be helping Edwards, yet i wish an exceptionally sturdy lady candidate turns up in 2012.

Answer 4

Seriously harm any chance the Dems have of winning the WH in 2008.

And I say this as a liberal who votes for Democrats.

The degree of Clinton hatred in the "swing voter" base is so extreme that anything the "mainstream" media chooses to obsess on WILL become all the reason they need to elect the Republican candidate, no matter who he is.

The degree to which Democrat voters themselves believe the right-wing rhetoric of the "mainstream" media is also enough to get them to either not show up at the polls at all that election or vote some third party candidate to split their vote. Dem voters have been successfully convinced of a number of untruths about their own politicians. They also tend to suffer from flinching too much from right wing passive aggression. (e.g. Need perfection in their candidates before they'll defend their policy preferences)

If Hillary Clinton is the Dem nominee, even though I will vote for her, I predict that she will lose with about 40-43% of the popular vote and in a landslide loss in the electoral college.

That way, the "mainstream" media can also fill the blanks in their predetermined narrative of "Why can't Democrats win elections" after they spend the next 12 months reporting every right-wing slander against that candidate as "fact".

Answer 5

It can only hurt the Democrat party. Hillary has extremely high negatives, despite her extremely favorable mass media coverage. The MSM (main stream media) is strongly behind her for 3 major reasons: 1) they are 90% democrat, as is often acknowledged in interviews with media members 2) They are foaming at the mouth for a minority candidate and she is considered more electable than Obama because she is a white female with a better fake resume.
3) They are afraid of her. She owns them. Remember the last CBS debate when her camp threatened Wolf Blitzer not to "pull a Russert"? Blitzer treated Hillary with kidd gloves in that debate (to use the word loosely) and Russert will never be allowed to interview Hillary again.

But even with all this behind her, with such positive press, the bottom line is that Hillary is just not likable. She comes off as a stone cold biotch. Even her supporters will be holding their nose while they pull the lever.

Answer 6

Hurt. The Democrats can beat the Republicans on issues, but if they nominate Hillary and all her baggage, you will never hear a word about issues, just a lot of mud-slinging.

Answer 7

So many people hate the Clintons that I think her nomination would hurt Democrat chances.

Answer 8

Hurt the DNC.
Last time a Clinton was in the White House they lost Congress to the GOP and we had 8 years of GOP presidency.

Need I say more.

Answer 9

Neither. We're so polarized right now that, for the most part, registered Democrats will vote Democrat and registered Republicans will vote Republican. Independents will probably abstain from voting because most people who call themselves independents do so because they hate both major parties.

People are more loyal to party right now than they are to country.

Answer 10

Hillary is the best prospect for the Democrats.Is there any doudt?Please erase this wrong notion from your mind.USA is going to have first female President after more than 2 Centuries of attaing Independence and having a superb Constitution.