Having a candidate like Donald Trump at the top of the republican ticket is a boon for Democratic chances for the White House...but my biggest fear with Trump wallowing in his own shit has always been that the republican party and its (deep-pocketed) donors will cut their losses and instead of throwing half a billion dollars into a losing Presidential ticket, use that money instead for down ballot races, trying to convince swing voters not to give Hillary Clinton a blank check.
David Nir at Daily Kos thinks this strategy is a recipe for disaster (depress republican voters, running against President Obama didn't help Dems at all in 2014), but I'm not so sure. We generally have trouble keeping pace with republicans in the money wars (at least down ballot) and even more money being spent on republican candidates certainly isn't going to help. The big hitch I see, though, is the mainstream media--not only are they going to be much more interested in the dichotomy between a republican Congress and a President Hillary Clinton, the whole idea of a republican Congress being a check on Hillary Clinton has to be spot on for their misguided "let's be fair to each party regardless of the damage done to ordinary Americans" type of journalism. Or their willful ignorance of just how crazy the republican party's ideas and candidates have become.
Four more years of a Democrat in the White House would be a sweet, sweet victory (and a safety valve for keeping republican bills from being passed into law), but at the very least we need a majority in the Senate for the upcoming Supreme Court nominee battles or the victory of the first woman President will be for nought.
Peace,
emaycee
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