Hillary Clinton Will Follow Obama's Path to Presidency -Not Her Husband's

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Landslide Lyndon's quote from James Carville summed up the new reality.  There are very, very few "swing voters".  There are very few voters who vote one party on a local level and another party nationally.  All politics is National now, and all Presidential candidates have coattails. 

In reality, any Democrat elected President will be pressured to govern as a liberal; it will be liberal votes that would elect that Democrat.  Conversely, any Republican elected will have to govern as a conservative because even if it's a soft conservative like a Mitt Romney, it will be the GOP base that provides the needed votes for his/her nomination and conservative voters that will elect the Republican.  I think people get that, and it's why they're not fooled about "New Democrats" anymore.  Times have changed.