Originally Posted by Guest

The tightly contested democratic primary of 2007/2008 went on from Feb 2007, when Barack Obama announced his candidacy, until June 2008, when Hilary Clinton conceded defeat as the democratic nominee. That's hardly what you would call 'switching hats over night'.

As you might recall, Hilary won all the big states ie: California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc etc. It is still hard to figure out how Barack Obama beat her except he just kept plugging away, especially in the caucus states which she essentially ignored.

The 2016 contest will be about issues and not about personalities, and the winner will be the one who supports a woman's right to choose, the one who supports healthcare for all, the one who supports the voting rights act, the one who doesn't think that employers should decide what type of birth control a woman uses (or if she should even use birth control), if state mandated vaginal-probes are used, if the minimum wage is raised, if equal pay for equal work is the law, if violence against women is allowed, and many other equal rights issues.

Until the GOP wants to embrace these issues, they are looking at obscurity.