Colorado can go either way. They re-elected a Democratic Governor, and elected a Republican Senator.
Virginia will be harder, but depends how Terry McAuliffe does as Governor.
And no it won't be a mistake to vote against Clinton or Warren. Both of those women would make horrible candidates.
Sarah Palin would make a great President. I don't know too much about Mary Fallin the Oklahoma Governor just elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, I think she was previously a Lieutenant Governor, then Congresswoman, then Governor. But the little I've heard about her is good.
Stop thinking the Republicans are toast in 2016. America can't be lost yet. 2014 indicated that America is tired of the failed liberal policies which is destroying America.
Only the Tea Party has the right ideas.
It's better to be electoral vote penny wise now than to get pounded so foolishly in 2016. (Okay, that sucked -- sorry. :3oops
Facing facts and reacting accordingly now might allow a pooling of funding resources sufficient to perhaps take the swing states ..
.. But the wrong candidate -- and I'm telling you, Palin's as wrong as it gets -- and it's curtains from the get-go.
The candidate the Republicans field must take the swing-states of Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina .. and then another fairly large one like Michigan or Pennsylvania.
That's a formidable task.
Who is it that can do that?
It could be easy to win the popular vote .. and still lose the White House.
The winning candidate must win the most state electoral votes, as arbitrarily weird as the electoral college seems to many.
We're the United STATES of America, and that can't be discounted.
So, who is that candidate?
I'm not sure he's on this thread-poll's short list.
It will be hard to convince enough Americans in the swing states to come out to the booths if you're tea-partyingly asking them to be libertarianesque left-wing on social issues and right-wing on fiscal-economic issues, as these people who might vote for a Republican candidate are social conservatives or moderate right, not socially liberal.
Despite the fact I'd rather not see a liberal Democrat in the White House again, the electoral college simply is what it is.
To win MI, PA, and FL, you have to win Lansing, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Miami and Orlando .. and more.
What Republican candidate can do all that???
The electoral college by its current nature makes the Democrats the favorite even before they field this or that novelty candidate.
The electoral college must be respected from the onset of selecting a viable Republican candidate and running mate ..
.. Or you might as well simply hand it to Monica Lewinsky's impeached ex-boyfriend's wife.