re: well since Trump is gonna be the GOP Nominee....

Or just diff people voting than the fringe on far right and left. Will be nice to get some moderate Rs voting who are tired of the party being owned by banksters masquerading as evangicals.

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This election will be decided more by the people not voting than the ones who will.

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Or just diff people voting than the fringe on far right and left.

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Both these statements are very accurate.

Here's another interesting observation. It isn't a secret that polling the nationwide popular preference for president is a meaningless exercise. The Electoral College is all that matters and a few swing states usually end up deciding the election.

Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida are four of the biggest ones. All four of those states have open primaries and in every single one of the the turnout for the R primary was greater than the D.

Wisconson +72,000
Florida +653,000
Ohio +550,000
Michigan +87,000

In those states, the evidence available suggests that the energized voter is leaning R. That is incredibly important because if the Rs flip just those 4 states in 2012, Mitt Romney wins the election.

I'm not making a prediction on the outcome. It is a LONG time until November but anyone who says Trump cannot win is delusional at best.

I still won't vote.

But it won't matter regardless of who I would vote for because the vast majority of the voters in Alabama will go with whoever the Republicans trot out there.

Trump, as terrible as he is, is infinitely better than hillary, and anyone who votes 3rd party might as well do like one guy said and go fishing on election day.

GOP is basically a failed state at this point. What a shitshow. Completely directionless, philosophically incoherent, zero talent, and no vision. W's presidency wasn't just ruinous for the U.S., it totaled his party, too.

Hillary wins in a landslide. If I'm wrong, dems win anyways b/c Trump isn't a Republican. It's been a fun campaign season for the good guys.

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It's gonna matter who is Trump's VP. He has to get a solid conservative. My vote is for Condoleeza Rice.

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I disagree. He doesn't need a far right VP (and I'm personally far right) to win this fall.

Look at the states he won in the R primary.

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
North Carolina

He won every single state that could remotely be considered part of the traditional conservative bible belt except Texas - and Texas isn't going D no matter who is on either ticket.

I have great respect for Condi Rice, but the absolute LAST thing Trump needs is to pick a VP that might help him in states he is going to win anyhow - and particularly a VP that would inexorably tie him to the foreign policies of the Bush administration.

He needs a good VP candidate to help him in the fall, but that candidate needs to meet two fundamental criteria.

1) Be someone that will help solidify the ticket in the more moderate swing states that will determine who wins the Electoral College.

2) Be someone with experience in government but far enough removed from Washington to still be able to run as an outsider.

If I were Trump, John Kaish would have to turn me down at least 10 times before I moved on to my second choice.

Bernie supporter here. Basically, living in Alabama, my vote will be worthless anyway. Trump will carry our state easily. However, since Bernie is out, I'll reluctantly vote for Hillary. I feel like a lot of Sanders voters will come to their senses once Hillary "officially" gets the nomination. Once the reality of a Trump presidency sets in, I think Sander's folks will make the tough decision to not sit the election out. My biggest fear is that the young voters who have been energized by Bernie don't turn out to vote for Hillary. They tend not to come out to vote very well. I think some of Bernie's supporters are still delusional about holding out hope that he has any chance left to win. I'm not one of these. Unfortunately, big money still runs our political system. Like Bill Maher said, "If you can't eat steak, eat the chicken."

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Hillary wins in a landslide.

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I hope you are right.

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id rather a wall than the disaster of open borders

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so you would rather build a wall and enforce a immigration policy that would cost this nation $1.2 trillion dollars? that's all i need to hear

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The average voter couldn't really care less about Supreme Court nominations. I think it's the most important issue in this election, but many voters probably don't even know the President nominates the Supreme Court justices.

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I generally agree that it isn't considered by the average voter, that's why I put it last in my list. The thing that makes it different this year is the fact that there's going to be a vacancy all summer and a lot of 4 to 4 ties will bring attention that it wouldn't usually get.

And while we don't agree politically you're 100% right in that SCOTUS appointments are the single most important domestic act performed by any president.