He'll be rude and crude, tell her to shut up when she filibusters her answers. No, she won't have an easy time with him or Ted Cruz.

She's a tough cookie under fire. She'll be w3ell-prepared for whatever foolishness Trump decides to toss her way. Clinton will make us all proud.

hearing? You may not realize, but that pack of hostile congressmen out to kill that day were all attorneys, many of them former prosecutors. They planned for her to be nothing more than a bloody patch on the rug when they got done with her.

She humiliated them. And, as you say, she wiped the floor with them. All in a properly dignified manner befitting one who wanted to become president, of course.

Btw, you may not have noticed, but Trump is not really all that sharp, and he is at great disadvantage going against someone who is. He also has no sense of humor and shows very poorly against people who do, including Hillary. All this is why he skips debates if he can.

But she is strong, smart, and won't be bullied by Donald Trump or any rethug she faces.

The plain fact of the matter is their policy positions don't hold up to scrutiny, and that will give Hillary the upper hand.

And yes, I'll hold my nose and vote for her in the general election if she's the Dem nominee.

to everyone but the elite few they are actually intended to serve. That would give either of our candidates a tremendous advantage.

I do believe, though, that Hillary will be able to make the most of it because of her broad range of knowledge, and real depth of knowledge on so many topics.

Martin, if necessary when the day comes, perhaps a little Vicks under your nose would allow you to use both hands for voting.

Hillary impressed me in her debates with Sanders, with the level of knowledge she exhibits when expounding on an issue. She also impressed me in a very negative way with some of her dishonest spins, but her misrepresentations are not readily apparent to most viewers and will stand her in good stead against the likes of Trump who lies whenever he opens his mouth.

Nix on the Vicks under the nose; I'll probably get a snootful at the watering hole first.

As for lies, Hillary's factchecking scores are better than Bernie's, and of course than any on the right. But she's scrutinized in a category all by herself. Bernie can lie more because it can work for him. They each have to work with their own realities.

I must say that, given that the right wing and media never let her get away with anything, I do wonder why she tries to give even any of the usually beneficial distortions or half truths. She's always called on them by the major media.

I also wish Bill would give up as attack dog. His criticisms never seem to show well. He should just try to come across as wise, preter-knowledgeable, and ex-presidential.

Your wishful thinking aside, any Republican candidate choosing to take that approach will probably lose by some of the largest margins ever recorded in our election history.

It's a different era, and manners seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur in this election.

But Gore should have beat Bush, so nothing is certain.

He appeals to a maximum of 30% of the electorate, and that's being generous.

Frankly, I don't even regard him as a threat. Yes, he will fire up sexists and racists. Yes, he will behave in a boorish manner at the debates and draw a big tv audience for his brand of "entertaining" hucksterism.

But I refuse to believe he is any sort of threat to be elected president. He has no capacity to grow his base, he is a self-contained tempest in a teapot.

Landslide victory for HRC is my prediction.

Fasten your seat belts. It ain't over, yet.

Its easy to see who the establishment wants though. The more they pump out articles like this, the more telling it is who they want in power to serve the elite. They underestimate the ability of the American people to see through their BS.

Camp Weathervane (I borrowed that but have unfortunately forgotten from whom) must really be fearing the upcoming Bernie states.

Hoping Bernie crushes Hillary tonight in AZ, ID, and UT. We'll see. Check out this prediction site https://tylerpedigo.com/

AZ is a closed primary. Voters had to register a month ago to participate. People looking to switch party affiliation to vote in the D primary needed to do that a year ago.

That means the young Independent voter is shut out from voting in the AZ D Primary.

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Before heading down this DNC manipulation (sour grapes) C/T rabbit-hole, perhaps, you should check the 2010 and 2012 Democratic primary schedule.

There is nothing "unique" about the schedule "of traditional {sic} dem states" ... What we are seeing this year is, Democrats have one candidate that, strongly, resonates in the south (i.e., the Black electorate) and another that, clearly, has not.

when most of those states go red in the general.

Why was/has this never been an issue or a talking point before this primary season?

Oh, that's right ... this year is, Democrats have one candidate that, strongly, resonates in the south (i.e., the Black electorate) and another that, clearly, has not.

Really, I give Camp Weathervane points for trying to turn a comment on electoral realities into racism. There is no depth to which they will not stoop.

...has stooped to any depths at all so far. It has been "negative lite" at most. Pointing out that Clinton resonates more strongly with black voters is not a charge of racism - please stop stooping to that tired old canard.

in primaries, the candidate that appeals to the most voters, as represented by primary results, gets that Party's nomination. The fact that the primaries are front-loaded for the south is of not consideration ... just as it has not been a consideration in the past.

And please stop with the name-calling stuff ... it just makes your weak, sour grapes argument, all the more pitiful.

Best to correct that.

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Well, then I guess we deserve him....

"Bernie or bust" and "I will never again vote for the lesser of the two evils" ... Both, read: "My candidate is losing/lost!"

Undiscovered country for Hillary, of course...

Yes they stand for principle, yet is their principles the followings of trump? "Clinton will not win" is a battle cry, yet it appears she is winning, as primaries go. I like Bernie Sanders, I will support him if he gets the nomination, and I will support Clinton if she gets the nomination. My principles are not allowing the right winged zealots to destroy our country. Many talk of Clinton's being in bed with wall street, her paid speeches, etc, yet as we see the aftermath of another terrorist attack, this one in Belgium, my principles say wall street is just a small part of the whole picture. Clinton, if she would win will be under the largest magnifying glass this world has ever seen. I don't think she will get in, then look to the democrats and say "fuck you...I am a republican now and screw all of your gay marriage, medicare, medicaid, social security, seniors, immigration, bullshit", because I just don't think she will do that. We as a party, and country make sacrifices, sometimes we need to do it for the good of all, not just the few.

and that doesn't make the hell any less hot ... especially when doing so leads to clear, real life, horrors.

IMO, Clinton will kick Trump's ass.

Liberal or progressive policies typically don't do well in crisis situations involving "terror" as American's want to "get tough".

Same thing is happening in Europe since the Paris attacks. And what you call 'get tough' is what you'd call 'tightening security' if you were close to an actual terrorist attack.

Or maybe an invasion of Libya? That seemed to help immensely. Time for some tough love.

You don't have to be a war-mongering right wing idiot to protect the nation from terror. Invading Iraq wasn't "tightening up". It was an exercise in stupidity.

I wrote that it would be Hillary vs Trump, and Trump is unelectable.
But about this politico article, it misses one very important point: there are LOTS of articles in the general or economic titles which say that we're still in the 2008 recession (activity level in the US stays low, unemployment in half of Europe is high), and that it's far form over, with the distinct possibility of things worsening.