According to a new McClatchy/Marist poll of 1465 voters, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and even Ben Carson, their strongest (of course if he doesn’t collapse under the weight of imaginary stabbings and pyramids full of grain)
Beautiful! Even tho the popular vote doesn’t directly elect a president, 93% (53 out of 57 contests) of elections held in American history have had an electoral college winner that corresponds to the popular vote winner (majority or plurality). The time prior to 2000 in which the top vote-getter lost the election was in 1888! No one on Earth who is alive today has ever lived thru more than one such election.
If Hillary wins the election by 15 points, it would be very plausible she would carry over 400 electoral votes, and I’d bet some of the old Clinton Democratic states that Gore, Kerry, and even Obama lost. It would also have big coattail potential. If Hillary is the nominee, it is the political and patriotic duty of all Democrats, progressives, you name it, to give her a mandate!
Marist polls are rated rather well by 538. BTW, if the election is a 15 point landslide, I predict a good electoral map.