(November 11, 2016 at 3:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Just a thought. It might be worth noting that Democrats have fewer viable candidates from which to choose because they are losing at the state and local levels. Presidential candidates generally come from governors and senators that in turn rise up out of local and state offices. If you have 1/3 as many governors then just as a numbers game you'll have fewer people ready and willing to hold high office. The Republican primary had 16 contestants. The Democrats had 2. And Bernie was actually a socialist not even a Democrat! You guys didn't have a primary. It was a coronation.
Not sure how you are counting but there were far more than 2 Democratic candidates. At the first debate there were 5, but before that there were others who dropped out early.
