Eight months before the midterms, the Beltway media is obsessed with the 2016 Presidential election. Chris Christie's troubles are only national stories because he was deemed the Republican front-runner for the GOP nomination. On the Democratic side, the story is whether or not someone will even bother to run against Hillary Clinton.
Since a foregone conclusion to a primary would be a buzzkill to media stories, the historic polling for a Clinton nomination has the media scrambling to find controversy. Some pundits point to the "fact" that she was portrayed as the inevitable nominee in 2008 as a reason to cast doubt on her inevitability in 2016. Fair enough, but they don't mention their roll in her being cast as inevitable.
Many pundits wonder if Clinton will be challenged from the left. It is important to understand that the biased liberal media is funded by the corporatocracy, and is, while biased, hardly liberal.
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In the interests of disclosure, I voted for then Senator Obama in the primary. However, since I live in New York, and our primary is so late as to be moot, I had gone through several candidates who had dropped out. Realistically, it was a 2 horse race, and one horse was near the finish line when I cast my vote.
There is an old adage that says you run to your base in the primaries and you run to the center for the general election. What people fail to realize is that in 2008, Senator Clinton was running to the left of Senator Obama. This is not my judgement, it belongs to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. I had even gone so far as to write to the New York Times Public Editor to complain that Krugman's columns were tantamount to endorsements which violated NYT editorial policy.
Clinton's campaign forced the Obama campaign to endorse single-payer health care. Now, many people cite President Clinton's ties to Corporate America, DLC, and Third Way to cast aspersions on Secretary Clinton's liberal bona fides. Fair enough, but she is not her husband. Also, I would add that while "quid pro quo" is standard practice in D.C., since she is not asking for the quid, she does not owe the quo. Money is being thrown her way.
I would support a Biden presidency, a Sanders presidency, a Warren presidency. A Hillary Clinton Presidency that exceeds my liberal expectations would not surprise me. She has already done that.