Who will win the election and why?

[Senator Spark]

So I just can't wait for this election to be over regardless of who wins, and if she wins I will be respectful but yet distraught at the same time. I feel as if the Democrats have had 8 years and it is time for a change. I'm not certain the nation as a whole feels that way. He definitely is doing this on purpose, because he has the potential to act presidential. If he continues to act the way he did in the primary, and drops the next 2 debates, I may consider voting for Johnson. He really needs to be scripted and controlled as soon as possible. Also, post final % margins.

[Senator Spark]

Clinton because Trump.

I think he's doing this on purpose but he can act presidential. I just need to have hope.

[elcorazon]

Clinton (sane) - against my better judgment, I continue to believe most people are not complete idiots and are basically good. Therefore, they will not vote in the lying, cheating, conniving, inexperienced candidate.

[ProudModerate2]

Probability is now quite high that we will have Clinton as our President.

[Ronnie]

Trump will lose because little does he know that attempting to cleave the country along racial lines in the year 2016 will leave his side with the smaller portion of voters.

The final margin will be something like 50 Clinton - 45 Trump - 5 Other.

[parochial boy]

TV News.

They aren't going to get a golden goose like Trump come around next time.

[skoods]

Clinton will win with around 355 electoral votes.

Trump will refuse to concede until the next day, when he will ask for Hillary Clinton's gynecological records from when she was a teenager to prove she's not a man in drag.

[PresidentSamTilden]

At least for now, it looks like Hillary is going to do it. It could change, but she's got a nice lead now, and she's pretty much led wire-to-wire.

Why? Well, there's a lot of reasons. Anti-intellectualism from the republican side hurting them with the educated. Rabid pro-capitalism, anti economic reform stances, even in light of the 2008 collapse, hurting republicans with young voters.  Borderline racist and out of touch statements and policies hurting republicans with minority voters.

Instead of nominating a candidate who could secure the base while minimizing these weaknesses, they chose Trump, a guy who loudly proclaims all of them. Perhaps the electoral math just isn't there for this type of candidate.

[Bismarck]

I agree that we need change after 8 years of the centre-right Obama presidency, but electing a far-right winger sure as hell isn't the right way to go.

Anyway, Clinton will obviously win. For a Republican to win a Presidential election nowadays, their nominee better have mass crossover appeal to compensate for their massive disadvantage in the electoral college. Trump, a white nationalist in an increasingly diverse nation, is not the candidate with this ability.

Lol @ true leftists who think their own personal views are the center of the spectrum.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Hillary Clinton
Why? Simply because the policies of the republican party of cut, slash and burn aren't popular. The vast majority that are educated, non-white or female will be voting for Clinton....

There's not enough angry white males to make up the difference.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Johnson because Hillary is a crook too:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watchdog-group-accuses-clinton-campaign-of-election-law-violations-214054242.html

[PeteB]

Clinton will win, because she is effectively running unopposed.

[egalitt]

My country is sure to win the election. No matter who is elected in the USA. It is doomed for further decline and disintegration.  
 

[ApatheticAustrian]

Clinton, because America is more liberty-loving than Europe and the blue-collar-white vote isn't enough anymore...and because: women.

[Pyro]

Clinton will win the election by winning the election.
Trump will have won in influencing the electorate, making alt-right politics mainstream.
Johnson will have succeeded in having his party win over 1%.
Stein will have grown the Green Party and like Johnson, would have outperformed 2012.

As far as real winners go, you have McKesson, GE, ExxonMobil, Raytheon, Halliburton, etc for securing four more years of setting the federal agenda and retaining oligarchic status quo.

[Spamage]

My country is sure to win the election. No matter who is elected in the USA. It is doomed for further decline and disintegration.  
 

Lol, I guess the former Soviet Union would know alot about that.

[Mercenary]

Clinton because she is running against a lunatic.
2016 an election so bad it makes you long for 2012.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Clinton because Trump.

^^^^

This will go down as the single greatest missed opportunity for a major party to win the White House in all of US history, and there will be holy hell to pay.

1. The GOP was the challenging party in an anti-establishment year.
2. The Democrats had to withstand a popular, anti-establishment insurgent who drained support from their base.
3. The Democrats' nominee was monumentally unpopular and scandal-ridden.

Ted Cruz was brilliant to withhold endorsement of Trump at the RNC, and was stupid to endorse him when it looked for a week like he might win.  The GOP is going to have to go through a hard reset now.

[EsotericExplorer]

Jill Stein - 'cause....

[Badger]

Clinton. Not crazy.

[egalitt]

My country is sure to win the election. No matter who is elected in the USA. It is doomed for further decline and disintegration.  
 

Lol, I guess the former Soviet Union would know alot about that.

That's the point. Your silly presidents who struggled against the USSR were not able,  due to their inherent stupidity, to understand that the collapse  of the Soviet Union would be followed  by the collapse of the USA. The fate of your country completely depended on the fate of my land. At last the time has come and under the next president we will witness collapse of the USA. You will have the same experience as I had: inflation 1000% a month, salaries not paid,  starvation, surge of criminal activities.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The fate of your country completely depended on the fate of my land.

Please elaborate, because this sounds kinda Harry Potter to be honest.

[egalitt]

The fate of your country completely depended on the fate of my land.

Please elaborate, because this sounds kinda Harry Potter to be honest.

I explain to the most gifted audience: Destinies of the two states are interdependent, the USSR collapse causes the USA collapse.   Have you  got it?
The difference is that Russia revives after each collapse while the USA will be destroyed forever.  At the next election half of your country will be in ruins and people in the other half will vote for Mexican president and Russian President.