I Think The Rs Play Now Is To Say Hillary Won't/Doesn't Have A Mandate

Looking at the polls, Hillary's lead is pretty much in the ballpark of the lead President Obama held over Romney in August 2012, before and after the conventions.

Rs know that Trump can't win. He's a much worse candidate than Romney ever was. Romney couldn't turn it around against Obama, and Trump won't turn it around against Hillary.

I believe we will be seeing more and more Rs deserting Trump, while not overtly supporting Hillary. There's a strategy there:

1. They will spend their time, energy and $ trying to hold onto their majorities in both houses, and

2. They will build a narrative that Hillary did not earn a mandate by winning because "she should have won by a huge margin considering how bad Trump was and how many Rs had deserted him."

What will that margin need to be for them to make such a claim? Well, it really won't matter. No matter how big her margin, it will be deemed too small by the Rs, and that meme will be picked up by the media and trumpeted as some obvious truth. If she wins by 4 points - as did Obama in 2012 - it will be tantamount to "she nearly lost." If she wins by 8 points, she shoulda won by 12. If she wins by twelve, she shoulda won by 20.

How do I know this will happen? By the simple fact that DU members are already saying those things about Hillary's lead today...and if supposedly partisan Ds are going to make such ahistoric pronouncements about their own candidate, you can be sure her enemies will pick up and expand on the same bullshit every chance they get.

To me, a win is a win. If Hillary wins by .1% in the popular vote, she still won. The media and the Rs will disagree, vehemently. Don't enable their bullshit by demanding that Hillary perform at a level that has never been demanded of a male candidate for president.