Let us stipulate a few things at the start. Hillary Rodham Clinton is still odds-on to be the next president of the United States. Only George H.W. Bush among modern presidents had anything close to her CV, and he never was a senator from a major state. She has been the victim of incredible abuse and the subject of fantastical lies ever since she first stepped onto the public stage in Arkansas. She is as tough and durable a political figure as any we've seen with the possible exception of the guy she married and the guy that has the job now. Electing a woman to be president of the United States is a genuinely big honking historic deal. Electing this particular woman president of the United States is the only sane and plausible choice available.

OK? Fine.

I would also stipulate the following—as a presidential candidate, as a seeker of votes, as an applicant for the world's most powerful temp position, for the second time in a row, she's proving to be something of a mediocrity. I realize that the results last night in West Virginia will not mean very much down the road. They are products of skewed demographics and the playfulness of a number of voters who would not vote Democratic in the fall if you paid them in gold to do so. I realize that a large part of the difference between her winning margin in 2008 and her losing margin Tuesday night can precisely be measured as the difference between running against the "black guy" and having worked for the "black guy." I also realize that she only lost the delegate count to Bernie Sanders 16-11, which does little to slow her grim and inexorable march to the podium in Philadelphia this summer. But, dear god, she really leaves West Virginia with a very clean clock.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a44750/hillary-clinton-anti-trump-candidate/

No progressive can justify voting for Donald Trump. Period.

If they even talk about doing it, they are throwing their ethics out the window, and making it clear that they have really been all about hating Hillary.

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Asked whether she'd foreclose the possibility of joining Clinton's ticket, Warren was hardly Shermanesque in her response.

"You know, this is something we've got to get all of our nominations settled on the Democratic side," Warren said. "For me, I'm going to keep doing my job every single day and I'm not thinking about another job."
Source: YouTube

Mounting speculation: Buzz surrounding a Clinton-Warren ticket has picked up in recent weeks, stoked in part by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's statement that the frontrunner was open to an all-female ticket.

Bernie Sanders, who is challenging Clinton in the Democratic primary but lags her badly in the delegate count, has also floated the possibility of a Vice President Warren.

http://mic.com/articles/143231/elizabeth-warren-won-t-rule-out-being-hillary-clinton-s-2016-vice-presidential-nominee

Downticket elections and exit polls make it clear that these are not left leaning Sanders base supporters who seek free tuition, single payer healthcare, high marginal tax rates etc. They are Trump supporters freed from the need to vote in the R primary with no active competition and trying to make the Dem primary as contentious and expensive and rich for attack ad data as they can. The Sanders voters who will go to Trump are vastly more likely very right leaning angry white men who would never vote Dem in the GE regardless of candidate than those who are real Dems who will abandon HRC specifically.