As far as Republicans are concerned, I think they probably have their work cut out for them. As I noted in an earlier thread, recent polls show that roughly 40% of Republican voters find Donald Trump to be unfit and unacceptable as their party's nominee.

That's an astonishingly huge number of their own party base. The last major party candidate to have faced internal opposition like that when on the cusp of clinching the nomination was George McGovern, back in 1972.

And even if the Republicans manage to somehow drive down those numbers and reduce that percentage by half, that still leaves one in five GOP voters -- some 12-13 million of them, if we base that on the 2012 presidential vote -- who may apparently be willing to break ranks and walk out.

Frankly, when you also consider Trump's similarly astonishing negatives among women and minorities, he needs to draw 70% of the white male vote just to stand a chance. Uh-uh. That ain't gonna happen.

So, for all our problems as Democrats with Bernie and Jane Sanders, I think that I'd still much rather be us than them right now.

My father in-law is Mexican-American. He says point blank that any Latino who supports Trump is a moron -- "and I know very few Latino morons."

Trump has shown a clear capacity to do for the national GOP, what Gov. Pete Wilson did for the California GOP by foisting Prop. 187 on the state in 1994, which singlehandedly galvanized the Latino vote to oppose both him and his party henceforth. CA Republicans have never really recovered from that blunder, and the attrition rate on their numbers over the last two decades has been brutal.

The Green Party epitomizes the old adage about all chiefs and no Indians. Stein and the rest of the party's so-called "leaders" will never amount to anything as a political force, so long as they continue to eschew the painstaking grunt work of actual party building and organizing. To that effect, they need to start going to where the voters are and engage them there directly, rather than expect those same voters to Google the party website, download and read their policy analyses, and then flock to them.

Jill has no chance of pulling any votes away from Hillary or Donald...but Gary does.  More liberal than Hillary in some ways, namely the way you and I appreciate, and more "true fiscal conservative" street cred than Trump.

The great question is if Donakd loses as most of us expect what happens then?  Does Ted rise from his crypt in 2020 for another go at it?