will dems self-destruct?

Now, now certainly your friends at CNN would have discredited the employment data if they COULD.

The fact that liberal media won't talk about the economy should be a BIG TIP, much like the elephant's circumcision. 

Jared Polis is a gay Boulderite (people's republic of Boulder), who is rich and buys his elections, his first election was for school board and he spent a million on the campaign.  Liberals only mind the buying of campaigns if they are not the one's doing it.

Co Governor Hickenlooper is a nice guy (moderate), but I can't see him making it on the national stage, Senator Bennett is a bit of a carpet bagger.  Someone who came to Colorado to make it politically, because he couldn't do it where he came from.

With the stable of possible candidates for POTUS they may not be able to do otherwise.  It is difficult enough to defeat an incumbent at most any level of political office in the US.  With the GOP spinning the "end" of Russiagate, it could be that Mr. Trump has a leg up on re-election.  

Republicans appear to be oblivious to the degree of corruption in the highest offices these days.  One must assume they don't care as long as POTUS is anti-immigration.  The populist has his issue that resonates.  The Dems don't.  Of course that could all change in a year, but don't bet on it.

The traditional Democrats (Joe Biden, etc.) are mostly dead politicians.  Biden and Hilary Clinton can forget about 2020.  They are too old anyway.  The new Congress is populated by too many inexperienced and inconsequential personalities rather than serious potential candidates.  Amy Klobuchar; Warren; Gillibrand et. al., and crazy old guys like Bernie Sanders - and young guys like Beto O'Rourke - are not serious contenders (IMHO).

The president elected in 2020 will not be a woman - too many bad effects from Clinton.  It will not be a Black man - that experiment is too recent and unfortunately polarizing.  If the Repubs don't challenge Trump in primaries, it looks like a 2020 horse race he might win again.  The Electoral College is a minority party political asset.  

Comment above concerning Mitt Romney as a Repub candidate is probably best ignored.  He is a dead politician too.  Once you lose on the national level, your are no longer a serious figure in leadership.         

Thanks for your reply. There are so many Democratic candidates coming out of the woodwork now, that I can't keep them straight. I actually don't know anything about Gillibrand or Booker or Harris. I'll have to wait for the debates. Jill Stein has been running for stateoffices in Massachusetts for years. She represents the Green/Rainbow Party, and she has a small but loyal constituency. She knows she has no chance of being elected. I think her main goal is to keep the Green/Rainbow issues in the forefront of the public. She knows she won't have to fulfill any promises, so she has some freedom to be a bit more idealistic than otherwise. I think she's less practical than Bernie Sanders, but she strikes me as more down-to-earth than Elizabeth Warren. But the media loves drama, and Warren will appeal to them more than Stein.

We are in la-la land now, folks, standard expectations are out the window, and they have been since the W. Bush administration (when Barack Obama became ascendant).

Of course, the democrats came into trouble when Hillary Clinton became the "obvious" choice because of how all the superdelegates owed the Clinton's power structure.  I wonder if Trump switched to Republicans because the superdelegate system was designed to prevent someone like him (an outsider) from running.  I thinK the democrats have fixed the problem, they're good at "fixing" things, like their new bid to get rid of the electoral college.  Why bother to play within the rules when you can change them in your favor.  Of course civilization is based on a bet that it is more profitable to play the game, than it is to beat your opponent profusely on the head and shoulders.  That is one thing that scares me, the democrats are playing up to the rabble, and the Republicans are playing up to a (different) rabble.  My concern is that in trying to win, both will loose.