i am beginning to believe that Hillary will indeed get the Dem nomination.
a caveat is that with a Dem majority in the Senate and House, voters may remember the bad taste of a full Republican White House, Senate and Congress and think they don't want to go through that with a full Democrat leadership accross the board and leave the Dems to come up short for the White House.
on the Republican side, I just don't believe these election results were the Right turning their back on conservative values. i think it was just the opposite. i think they wanted to get rid of the clowns that ran on Conservative platforms and pissed in the face of their constituents and they will hold their next candidates to the fire to make sure they are truly Conservative. That counts Rudy out. I just don't see him with his limited experience getting a National Election nominatation. the further we get from 2001, the less chance he has. I can see him getting a position on a Republican winners cabinet however.
McCain? I don't see it happening with him either. He is already looking very old. I think he has flip flopped too many times and won't make it out of the primaries.
My guess is, if my theory is correct that the true conservatives are going to regroup and their choice may be Newt Gingrich. He learned his lesson a few years ago. He was a conservative, got into power and found out what some of the Republicans that lost two days ago found out. Conservative Republican voters don't sit around and let people piss in thier face and get away with it. They get voted out of office.
He has spent a ton of time in Iowa re-creating himself over the past 9 months. He has been quietly working on his campaign for over a year. He has a ton of baggage, but it isn't secret baggage. There isn't anything a Dem foe will be able to pull out of the bag at the 11th hour on Newt that voters won't already know.
Of course....I have no idea what I am talking about. I just had a few minutes to type all this crap while I wait on hold with my insurance company.