A vote for the Republicans or Democrats is a vote for the status quo. Pressure from the radical left could be the beginning of a transformational changeNBC News recently projected that Hillary Clinton has surpassed the 270 electoral college votes she needs to be elected president. Based on polls,which fill been surprisingly accurate this year, Politico reports that whether you include states where Clinton leads by 5%, and she has 302 electoral college votes. There may be no swing states in 2016. Indeed,no one with her lead at this stage of the campaign has lost the approved vote in 16 elections, since modern polling began.
Thomas Frank wrote in the Guardian that with Clinton certain to win, and she will ignore populist movements and govern to the right. Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report writes that Clinton is stuffing the entire US ruling class into her campaign: neocons and neoliberals,Wall Street and big commerce, military and intelligence – they are all there, and with progressives,blacks and Latinos pushed to the side.
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Source: theguardian.com