In short: The Dem primary is the election in Presidential years. Team Simpler will be back in two years with the “I’m not really a Republican” theme they used to great effect last time, and will probably give Lisa Blunt Rochester a decent run for her money. Has LBR started fundraising for 2018 yet? Sad to say, but she better get on that.
Now that the votes are in, though, it does not take a doctorate in political science to know what comes next, because the 2016 election is a presidential year.
The Democrats have put together such a streak here in presidential years, Delaware looks like something out of Pablo Picasso’s blue period.
This one is shaping up to be more of the same. The major political forecasters, like FiveThirtyEight and The Upshot in the New York Times, are collectively predicting there is better than a 90 percent chance that Delaware will go for Hillary Clinton, and the electorate’s current proclivities toward straight-ticket voting ought to be enough to carry the Democrats down the ballot.
Sorry, Republicans, but really. There is no reason to linger. Stop looking back longingly at 1988.
