The Daily 202: The presidency is Hillary Clinton’s to lose. Here are 12 ways she could lose it.

WaPo ^ | May 16, 2016 | James Hohmann

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The Daily 202: The presidency is Hillary Clinton’s to lose. Here are 12 ways she could lose it.

By James Hohmann May 16

THE BIG IDEA:

The elites in Washington almost uniformly believe Hillary Clinton will be elected president in November. The conventional wisdom underlying coverage of 2016 is that Donald Trump will go down in flames and probably take the Republican Senate with him.

The presumptive GOP nominee has a well-documented history of misogyny, xenophobia and demagoguery. He has alienated women, Hispanics, Muslims, African Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans. He has mocked the disabled, prisoners of war and Seventh-day Adventists. The speaker of the House and both living former Republican presidents are withholding endorsements.

It should be a slam dunk for HRC, right?

But, but, but: Six months is an eternity in politics, and a year ago no one in the chattering class –— including me –— believed Trump had any real shot at becoming the Republican standard-bearer. With Clinton struggling to sew up the Democratic nomination against a socialist septuagenarian –— she’s expected to lose tomorrow’s Kentucky primary –— we cannot foreclose the possibility that she will botch the fall campaign against the billionaire businessman.

The presidency is hers to lose, but here are a dozen ways Clinton can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory:

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Don’t forget, history is not on Hillary’s side. Since World War II, only once has a party controlled the White House for three consecutive terms.

The political parties have consistently screwed the country since 1988. The voters knew it, but the only real option available was to elect the "other" party.