Talk:Seddie/@comment-3247345-20150716193932/@comment-14284535-20150716224750

Frankly, if Hillary goes left, I think any candidate running for us would win. Republican strongholds in the South, Great Plains, and the mountain and desert Southwest are growing. Democratic strongholds, because of high taxes, high regulation, and bloated governments, are all losing electoral votes.

For 2016, I count 210 electoral votes being light or dark blue, 219 being light or dark red, and 106 being at least nominally in play. Of those in play, only Colorado, Missouri, and Virginia (32 electoral votes) did not elect very Conservative Republican governors in the last cycle.

Now, prognostication for 2016 today is foolhardy at best, but t hat bodes very, very well for us - we can run a harder right candidate and expect to have most of those 293 electoral votes in the bag.