The candidates for the 2016 Election will be Hilary Clinton and Douglas Kmiec for the Democratic Party whilst for the Republican Party the nominee will be Chris Christie and Bobby Jindal for Vice President. Clinton has a wealth of experience and is considered to be one of the top lawyers in the country as well as having immense experience on all fronts as Secretary of State. She was also a nominee for the 2008 General Election but lost out to Barack Obama who eventually won the General Election beating John McCain.
Topics for the election
Perhaps the topic which will dominate the 2016 Election will be healthcare and it will be taken up by both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Clinton will take up the issue on a populist front insisting that health care is important for those who cannot get it. On the other hand, the Republicans will insist that states are free to choose whether to introduce universal healthcare and this will be their calling card. Freedom of choice is an important issue for the Republicans and they will probably concentrate on that.
The state of the country’s finances is also a favourite topic for the Republicans since they have been harping on the issue for several years. Principally the issue hangs around the controlling of the public debt which has soared and ballooned out of proportion when compared to previous years. The Republicans blame this issue on the introduction of ‘Obamacare’ whilst the Democrats insist that the conducting of two hugely expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have sucked the coffers dry.
Immigration is also another important issue which will probably be taken up by the Democrats. Since several states in the Midwest are now turning solidly blue (New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada spring to mind) it will be logical that the Democrats will push for citizenship for those immigrants who have been in the United States for a number of years. This will put them on a collision course with the Republicans who are adamantly opposed to giving immigrants any sort of legal rights and are actually in favour of deportation. This will be a hot issue in the 2016 election.
So the three issues which should dominate the 2016 election will be the so called ‘fiscal cliff’, Obamacare and immigration.
Election 2016
Although the election result should be closer than that in previous years, it is still probably the Democrat’s to lose. With voter antipathy very high towards the Republicans especially due to the government shutdown and their insistence on getting bogged down in petty issues such as healthcare, the charisma of Clinton should be enough to sway the election in their favour. The electoral map should look roughly like it was in 2012 but there will be some states which should flip especially North Carolina where it is innately possible that the Democrats will once again regain this state which they won in 2008.
The results in the Mid-Western states should demonstrate that the Democrats have become pretty much unbeatable. New Mexico and Nevada should show strong majorities in the high fifties while Colorado should also be quite comfortable. These strong results will be compensated by increased Republican majorities in Texas and states such as Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and the Dakotas although these will have a minimal effect on the result.
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