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Re:Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton by dragonwriter on Friday October 09, 2015 @05:28PM (#10363372)
> Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

Trump's been leading the Republican polls for some time, though he still has a pretty small overall share and Carson has been surging recently. Its pretty hard to justify a claim that its clearly heading toward any particular winner on that side (particularly since its not decided in a national election, but state-by-state elections to assign delegates in a manner which isn't proportionate to share of vote, and there's not frequent enough state-by-state polling to have a clear picture of even the current state of those, much less where they are likely to be by the times they are held.)

On the other hand, while Sanders is doing well in some places, Clinton's still got a about a 20 percentage point lead in most national polling; she's hardly "imploded" the way Bush, widely perceived as an early Republican frontrunner, has. Many of the same concerns exist as discussed above with the Republican ticket as far as drawing conclusions go, but what you can read from polls doesn't show anything like a clear course to a Sanders win.

Re:Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton by dikdik on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:06PM (#10364047)
We have also had ZERO democratic debates. Many people, especially the older generation that still gets most of their news from tv, haven't had a chance to hear anything about Sanders. Tuesday will be very telling.

If you go back and look at the political news articles from 2007/early 2008, Obama was viewed as a long-shot. HRC tends to do worse the more exposure voters have to her, while Sanders is doing the opposite. It's going to be a tough fight, but I think Sanders has a great chance of winning the primary.

Re:Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton by greenyoda on Friday October 09, 2015 @07:11PM (#10363774)
Clinton's 20% lead could evaporate overnight if Biden announces that he's running.
Re:Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton by dragonwriter on Friday October 09, 2015 @07:43PM (#10363864)
"Could potentially implode as one potential outcome of an event which may or may not happen in the future" is not the same thing as "has imploded".