re: #573 Obdicut

I just realized that, either in one year or four years, Obama is going to be out of office. People are going to have a hard time adjusting, I think. This has really torn the lid off a lot of stuff.

Oh, it’ll be interesting sooner than five years. (Barring extraordinary event Obama will win this year.)

On the R side, 2016 will be the year the TP says “No more RINOs”. Expect to see a lot of almost-under-the-radar work on developing the ground game Santorum needed and didn’t have this time around. You can see remarks that way already. Oh, expect 2015 to be fairly intense in determining which non-RINO they’re going to support in the nomination against the “establishment” RINO.

On the D side, well, right now there’s no viable replacement for Obama. Clinton’s resigning next year and claims no more interest. Biden’s not a national candidate (demonstrated in multiple campaigns).

heh - Obama would really, truly impress me if he started grooming a small handful of successors for the 2016 contest. Not “an heir”, but a small group of people to be the Democratic Leaders of the next decade or two.