Q: How likely is 2016 election of Hillary with coattails?
A: Extrapolation from present situation: very likely (whoever primaries her).
Q: What is most likely to influence President Hillary in a Progressive direction?
A: More and more-Progressive Democrats in Senate and House.
Q: Which Democratic candidates are Hillary's coattails most likely to enable to win election in to the House in 2016?
A: Those candidates who have used 2014 campaigns to:
1. Demonstrate commitment to locals before their district is perceived to be “in play” in the national ‘game’.
2. Start uncovering and publicizing incumbent’s policies, backers, favors and other weaknesses.
3. Start building name recognition. (Incumbents’ familiarity edge takes more than one cycle to narrow).
4. Start obtaining experience reaching the district’s voters, registrants and unregistered eligible voters. (Who, where and how to register and to turn out; Which issues resonate?)
5. Start impressing financial contributors & volunteers w/the candidate’s skills, work ethic, resilience and persistence.
Q: What is most likely route to more 2016 Progressive candidates?
A: More 2014 Progressive candidates, whose second run in 2016 would be less vulnerable to being replaced and/or ignored by a monied Centrist candidate.
Q: What is most likely route to more 2014 Progressive candidates?
A: A campaign to encourage and recruit them with promises of 2014 publicity and seed money.