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Who will become the new American president in 2016? Who should? Who are you desperately hoping doesn't?

A brief summary: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/politics/2016-presidential-candidates.html

Feel free to discuss any other elections relevant to you.

Donald Trump obviously

Who will become the new American president in 2016?

Hillary Clinton. 90% chance.

Who should?

Out of the realistic contenders, I guess Hillary. Bleh.

Who are you desperately hoping doesn't?

Out of the realistic contenders, Scott Walker. Don't think he has any real shot though. I think he has a real shot at the nomination but I think he would die in the general.

Yeah, Scott Walker worries me. He's too much like evangelicals I grew up around. Maybe not praying for the Eschaton, but otherwise, yeah, no.

I will vote for whoever is the democrat nominee just because the Republicans are so scary at this point that even though I'm more of a socialist and more liberal than the democratic party, I'm totally game for voting for the lesser evil.

Vote Cthulhu/Vader: This time they are the lesser evils!

Pretty much. I'd love an independent president but there needs to be independent people in Congress first or nothing would get done even if by some miracle a third party candidate won the presidency.

I'm afraid a Republican will win though because people have had 8 years to blame problems on a Democratic president and that's just the way things tend to go in elections, back and forth. I've heard some democrats say that Jeb Bush isn't as bad as some of the others in his family, since his name has been floating around a lot, but personally I'm not really comfortable with these kinds of political dynasties.

I don't think an independent or third party candidate would really make much difference. Because it would still be the same electorate, with the same views. A third party candidate isn't going to magically change the voting makeup of the country or the broader political structure.

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I'm going to vote for a party I agree with but only because I live in California. So basically, my vote never matters for President, because if California is even in play, the Democrats have already lost.

I don't want it to be any of the Republicans, but precedent suggests it will be one of them, because their stuff is scary. Their primary base is way more right wing than even most right wing states, so that means any GOP party candidate who wants to get through the primaries has to go really right wing and looney tunes to get the nomination. That does not make for a good president. I really hope it isn't Jeb, but I think he'll be the Republican candidate in the end.

I'm hoping the Dems don't choose Hilary Clinton too. For a start I just don't like her, her style, or her whole attitude. I know I shouldn't base my preference on that, but on policies, but what can you do. I feels what I feels. I also feel that Hilary Clinton being the Dem candidate makes it a cakewalk for the Republicans. Apart from her age and her being prone to fainting spells (and perhaps worse), the Clintons are a known quantity. No way the Republican slime-machine doesn't have a nice big fat folder of stuff pre-prepared to use on her. All that stuff from the 90s that flew under the radar when Starr went off message on his puritanical witch hunt, we'll see that again. We'll have Bill's peccadilloes dragged out again, we'll have god knows what else since. She's a sitting duck if she runs. The Dems need another relatively unknown candidate, one that the GOP doesn't have a solid dirt-file lock on yet.

I agree with your second paragraph, but I'm not so sure about your first. Last time, Romney was the least offensive candidate they could come up with (which is pretty sad) if you compare him to the likes of Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.

Technically, Herman Cain was probably a fraction less offensive than Mitt Romney, but he wasn't serious.

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Better get used to it, because it's going to be Hillary, unless she dies, has a debilitating injury, or converts to Islam.

I don't think it's going to be as easy as all that, either. Because the sword of familiarity cuts both ways - there's a lot of hate, but a lot of it people have heard before. And if they've decided they're OK with Clinton, it's unlikely to change their minds now.

The only Democrat I almost like is Jim Webb. He's too badass for the Dems to nominate him though.

The Republican side of things is a smidge too crowded for me to go through every last one of them. I will say that Jeb Bush is a pro-big government phony in addition to being even more of a political dynastic heir than Clinton. Also, Ben Carson is probably our best bet and he probably won't get the nomination.

Webb has basically no chance at getting it, nor is he at all a good fit for the party.

I mean, with respect, him being your favorite Democrat is rather like me expecting Republicans I like to do well. Of course they won't. If I agree with them, they're not likely to be very popular with Republicans.

Re: Carson, he has no chance at winning the nomination and I wouldn't expect him to be a very good candidate in the general. Just in terms of complete and total lack of political experience - he seems like an intelligent, decent guy, setting aside my disagreement with his views, but come on. Do you really want to go the Wendell Wilkie route?

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I really hope Hillary Clinton doesn't get the Democratic nomination because I'd have to vote for her and I don't want to because I'm opposed to political dynasties.

The Republican party remains trapped in any non-gerrymandered election, because their base is the 27% of the country that's observably, massively insane. Like, no-connection-to-consensus-reality crazy. But the policies the base wants have no appeal outside that 27%, because they're awful and make no sense. And the 27% have shown that they will foamingly attack any Republican they see as being insufficiently crazy.

So a GOP presidential candidate has to keep that 27% while somehow not freaking out another 24%. And that can't be done any more.

Between the amount of money that they have available to them, and the basic cyclical nature of American politics, they have to win at some point just by backing into it. The Democrats do have large structural advantages in Presidential elections but that only goes so far.

Really, the important thing to do is to turn the vote out like a motherfucker in 2020 so we can get some of that sweet, sweet census apportionment redistricting and try to actually win some fucking House races.

I'm not American, so my opinion doesn't really count, but hopefully not a Republican. Their most likely candidates are always scary, to put it mildly.

I want Hillary so a certain person I know can eat her words about how we'll never have a female president because sexism is too strong and we're focusing too much on fighting racism instead of sexism when we don't need to do that anymore because we elected a black president so obviously racism doesn't even exist anymore.

Jon Stewart, duh.

The true reason he's quitting the Daily Show, lbr.

I like him too much to wish such a terrible job on him.

Me.

I'm to be your new president.

Be nice to me.

Please not Walker. Although the idea of the White House being occupied by a proportionally-scaled up group of protesters as in Wisconsin is kind of funny.

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