Reality check here for everybody. These campaign events and Hillary's tireless campaigning (she makes a swing through New England tomorrow) are not about "stacking Congress" for her in case she decides to run in 2016. This election right now has everything to do with a whole hideous agenda out there if these candidates are not elected. It is crucial.
We can forget about immigration reform and raising the minimum wage if they lose. We will also see cuts to important social safety nets at both state and federal levels if the Democratic Party loses the Senate and these state houses. It is valuable to remember the lessons of the 2010 mid-terms right about now.
This election is not about Hillary. Perhaps she is one who best understands that. It is about you: your family, your children, your parents, and you. It is about threatened cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. It is about Tea Party candidates who want to privatize Social Security. (How's your 401K or 403B doing?) It is about reducing benefits that we already have.
The reason Bill and Hillary Clinton are criss-crossing the country is because there are immediate threats to social programs that American families depend on right now. Bill Clinton has said that when we vote we win. We need to win just to maintain the status quo.
No one can afford to take anything for granted. Hillary said that today in New York. We all need to vote. We cannot afford to lose. When we lose, if we lose, amazing changes can happen overnight, and they will not be good. Congress may have acted like it was operating in a tar pit since 2009, but if the Republicans win the Senate, a surge of electrical energy like a bolt of lightning will galvanize them. That will also happen in states where Republicans win the state house from Democrats.
So everyone needs to vote, not because Hillary has asked us to or needs us to, but because Hillary knows what will happen if we do not and is trying to tell us. It will not be pretty.
Every vote counts, always and every time. If you are too young to remember the 2000 election, please take my word for it (or, if you don't trust me, look it up or watch HBO's Recount)).
