and the Democrats for Trump

Things you can look forward to seeing over the next six months.

Julie McClelland is a registered Democrat. And the stay-at-home mother of three remains undecided ahead of Oregon’s May 17 primary election, which will feature a battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
But come this fall, McClelland, a third-generation Mexican-American from Glide, may lean toward the man who drew a raucous crowd of thousands to the Lane Events Center on Friday night: Donald J. Trump. And though she’s considering voting for Sanders, she’ll never cast her ballot for Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner.
“Never Hillary,” McClelland said at the rally, adding she prefers Trump because he eschews so-called political correctness and has, to this point, self-financed his campaign.

Yes.  I understand the dynamics at work, why Donald Trump is a better bet of getting elected president than Ted Cruz.  Which is that Ted Cruz was not going to win just about, but not quite, all of the votes of Mitt Romney, and not pick up any voters from Obama’s column.  Trump will lose a bunch of Mitt Romney’s voters, and pick up some from Obama.  So it’s somewhere between a historical landslide for Hillary Clinton, and a narrow Trump victory… with, perhaps some odd happenstance that the Celebrity Wave will commence — previous non-voters deciding “Hey!  Cool!  Schwarzenegger!”  [I don’t know if this long, long six month stint heightens or decreases the possibility.]

And so comes the hammering on trade agreements, to remind downscale Democrats whatfor they dislike about Clinton and the Establishment Democrats.

So far the balance is majorly in Hillary Clinton’s favor, and it’s possible — even likely — it will stay that way.  But in the meantime, to keep things amusing… every “Trump Democrat”will be found and reported by the news media’s coverage of these rallies. So… if you’re reading these stories, you will meet a greater proportion of Trump Democrats than exist in the real world.

As for this voter… deciding between Hillary or Bernie in the primary, and “Never Hillary” in the General… um… why even vote in the primary?

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