But with far fewer folks (Democrats) hoping you'd be indicted.

"the FBI will recommend that Hillary Clinton face prosecution for mishandling classified information. That’s the FBI."

and she won't be indicted.

If one is running for president and the FBI recommends they be prosecuted for anything, that is not good news - whether they're indicted or not. There will be a national debate over whether they should be indicted, more voters will hear about it and stuff like that damages the candidate in the eyes of the electorate who will not feel a person the FBI thinks should be prosecuted belongs in the White House.

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Democratic label. However, they are too busy attacking him.

It's as bad as Cruz and his eh factor.

Her campaign would effectively be over.

Obama beat Romney 51% to 47%. It's probably going to be a tight contest with no incumbent. They probably only have to move the needle a couple of points to change the outcome. Something like this would move it more than a couple of points.

The other part of the indictment debate would be accusations that Obama put his thumb on the scales of justice trying to protect her. => Senate investigation => threatening impeachment, etc

Ugly stuff.

"Obama beat Romney 51% to 47%" in popular vote means nothing... Gore won the popular vote and still lost the election. The state breakdown is what matters.

2012 results:
Colorado Obama +5 9 EV
Florida Obama +1 29 EV
Ohio Obama +3 18 EV
Virginia Obama +4 13 EV
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69 Electoral College votes within 5 pts

Move those to Romney's column with a 2.5% voter swing from Obama to Romney in those states
and Romney wins 275-263.

If Hillary being accused by the FBI changes the minds of 5% of her voters (2.5% swing) (and that would probably change the minds of more than 5%), she's toast because she's running with or behind most Republicans now.

She's really walking a tightrope right now.

Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable to that 2.5% or more swing in the weeks before the election. They have so much stuff in the can against her that I fear it's going to be brutal. The voters will be reminded of all the Clinton scandals Whitewater, Travelgate, Cattle Futures, through to Benghazi, State Department emails, Clinton Foundation, her career collection of lies, her collection of 22+ flip-flops on policy, etc.

Yes, she has experience and so do we. Not all of America's experiences with Hillary have been good ones. The GOP will make sure we remember ALL the bad ones.

All that crap is going into the hands of dishonest men like Karl Rove with BIG Koch funding for the general election. In the general campaign, they're going to rip her apart every day. If the campaign starts out close, as it is now, the GOP will get that 2.5% and then some. Whatever the Dems might have on any of the GOP candidates, the GOP have ten times as much mud to throw with Hillary.

But it's like when they pound the terror drum and have everyone flying around drones and a wide open border. It really is illogical.

How sad is that?