Hillary will likely run in 2020 according to her advisor

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I don't think it's such an outrageous thought. She won the popular vote last time. Whose to say she couldn't win in 2020? She has the most national political recognition of any other democrat, even more so than Bernie. Certainly more so than Warren, Booker, Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris.

I don't think it's such an outrageous thought. She won the popular vote last time. Whose to say she couldn't win in 2020? She has the most national political recognition of any other democrat, even more so than Bernie. Certainly more so than Warren, Booker, Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris.

The fact that she could win is what scares me the most. If the only important thing is getting Trump out of office, then I think we are truly f****d as a nation. Yes, let's elect one of the most corrupt, arrogant, self-entitled, elitist politicians in U.S history to the highest office. Hey, at least she isn't Trump! When does this madness end?

With the eviction of Trump from the White House he's trespassing.

Yeah. She only kicked Trump's ass in the last election by three million votes and two percentage points beating Trump more decisively than W.Bush beat Gore, Nixon beat Humphrey, and Kennedy beat Nixon.

Yeah, probably helped by all those illegal ballots. She f**king lost, get over it. No one likes her.

And where will that lead us? We'll just keep kicking the can down the road and swinging the pendulum back and forth between the two criminal gangs that continue to f**k us over time and time again. I wouldn't vote for Hillary if her opponent was Satan himself.

He is.

Be careful of what you wish for.

No, if she was cheated, it was by the skewed electoral college system. Most countries elect their president directly by highest popular vote rather than by how the vote went in states or provinces.

Well, then I'll just go ahead and vote for Satan. We're circling the drain, anyway, right? Might as well get it over as quickly as possible. Why drag it out?

When Trump sets himself up as dictator-for-life and puts all his concentration camps in place, you'll learn what "drag it out" really means.

That’d cause a civil war, we fought a revolution for similar reasons. The coasts of the USA are not the whole country, this is precisely why we have the electoral college.

...Standard civics-class accounts of the Electoral College rarely mention the real demon dooming direct national election in 1787 and 1803: slavery.

At the Philadelphia convention, the visionary Pennsylvanian James Wilson proposed direct national election of the president. But the savvy Virginian James Madison responded that such a system would prove unacceptable to the South: “The right of suffrage was much more diffusive [i.e., extensive] in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes.” In other words, in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves (more than half a million in all) of course could not vote. But the Electoral College—a prototype of which Madison proposed in this same speech—instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall count.

Virginia emerged as the big winner—the California of the Founding era—with 12 out of a total of 91 electoral votes allocated by the Philadelphia Constitution, more than a quarter of the 46 needed to win an election in the first round. After the 1800 census, Wilson’s free state of Pennsylvania had 10% more free persons than Virginia, but got 20% fewer electoral votes. Perversely, the more slaves Virginia (or any other slave state) bought or bred, the more electoral votes it would receive. Were a slave state to free any blacks who then moved North, the state could actually lose electoral votes.

If the system’s pro-slavery tilt was not overwhelmingly obvious when the Constitution was ratified, it quickly became so. For 32 of the Constitution’s first 36 years, a white slaveholding Virginian occupied the presidency...

Her supporters point out that she WON the popular vote.

They say she was "cheated" by Russian tampering.

So, it's only fair to give her another chance.

Why don't we just put all presidential candidates in the loony bin over grandiose delusions? Seriously how nuts must one be to want that job?