DON SURBER: The first 2016 Electoral College Map looks bad for Democrats.
I am not saying that the 31 states where Republicans control the legislature will definitely go Republican in the 2016 presidential race. But if they do, that’s 314 Electoral College votes. You need only 270 to win. . . . The carnage this year should demoralize Democrats, particularly Hillary Clinton, who has the misfortune of being the Democratic front runner for 2016. George McGovern and Fritz Mondale feel her pain.
Hillary Clinton was about as effective as Pat Nixon on the campaign trail. Her candidates lost 12 of the 13 tight Senate races she campaigned in. Even the Jacksonville Jaguars have a better winning record this year. She’s old and it shows. Her ideas have atrophied. She has been a fixture in Washington for 22, always causing some controversy, always blaming others, always cackling. One reason Democratic Party bosses backed her opponent in the 2008 nomination process was that he was No Drama Obama.
She’s 67 and has had only one executive position in her live. And she blew that gig in Benghazi.
Of course, she heads a bench of balsa wood. Behind her is “young Hillary” — Elizabeth Warren, 65. Then there is the “conservative Democrat,” Martin O’Malley, 51, governor of Maryland. He doesn’t want the government’s boot on your throat; he wants to put its ballet slipper there. He pushed for cheap college tuition for illegal aliens. Democrats are about to learn that “immigration reform” is as big a loser as gun control and global warming.
Andrew Cuomo, 56, may be the most intriguing in the Democratic bunch. He cut a deal with Republicans to get re-elected in exchange for Republicans taking control of the state Senate. After Obama, Democrats may go for a guy who cuts deals, no matter how far below the table they go. Oh and you political virgins out there need to understand, Republicans got the better end of the deal.
But like his father before him, Cuomo doesn’t need the presidency. He has all he needs in Albany.
Besides, who needs the noise?
The bottom line is no matter who the Democrats nominate, he or she faces an Electoral College map that is stacked against Democrats. The Solid South now stretches to Wisconsin.
Read the whole thing. But don’t get cocky, kid.