Some facts we must consider

We can debate the policies and what not of our candidates, but none of it makes any difference if Donald Trump is re-elected. Impossible you may say, but on Mon Oct 31, 2016, I was accused of trolling and kicked out of DU (Username viguy2016) for saying Donald Trump was going to be elected. I am a past officer of a Union and I knew what my members were saying. There is still a strong possibility Trump will be re-elected, even as he shows he is totally insane.


The people here on DU are not typical Americans, we follow the news and care about politics. Most people do not; unless it in some way, it will effect them. Leave me alone, don't bother me unless it is within 2 months of an election. Then it is a sport. Even then they will tend to vote for the status quo by re-electing a president unless their personal economy is bad. (Obama, GW Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ, Ike, Truman, FDR)

We have to assume the states Hillary carried are our base which we will win in 2020 no matter who we put up against Trump. It does not matter if we win them by 1 vote or 10,000,000 votes, they will count in the same way. Therefore we do not have to excite the people in NY, CA, MA, Ct, WA, OR, NJ, IL etc. They are ours anyway.

However, these are the states which will have the greatest voice in picking our candidate. But the states which will choose our next president are OH, PA, MI, WI, FL, all of which went for Trump in 2016. These battleground states tend to be moderate politically and historically pro-union. We are crazy if we put forth a Health Insurance plan that does not allow for private employer-provided insurance. Benefits are the main reason Unions give when they organize employees. Whoever is our candidate must be able to take three of these states away from Trump.

So the question that must be answered is, which and how will the candidate win the necessary states to defeat Trump. Sadly I think our strongest candidate has already dropped out of the race. The only way Sherrod Brown could be our candidate is if the convention deadlocks. What do you think? Who should be our candidate and why?