I think they're furious with the Republicans. They have been promising that they will end Obamacare, stop planned Parenthood, stop immigration, impeach Obama...etc etc for 7 years, and little if any of that has come to fruition. So now they're angry at their own party as well as the Democrats. That's where a guy like Cruz can squirm in...the only problem was that Trump did it much better.

As for Hillary, I think people greatly overestimate the impact of her "scandals." I've said it before, but it really only fires up the base. I'm sure it sways some undecideds, but most Democrats look at all these investigations and see it as yet another witch hunt led by the GOP. It's not going to change their minds.

Don't be so quick to think the GOP is going to embrace Trump. In fact right now the opposite is happening, they are actually talking about supporting Hillary as a means to preserve their party. They'd rather have her for four years then Trump demolishing the GOP for decades. High up Republicans are saying this today. They are also terrified that Trump will hurt their Senate and House races (and they are probably correct.)

So who is Trump's running mate going to be?

This.

I don't watch "news." I don't even have cable. It's all garbage. Please do not speak on my behalf, and then argue against that.

I'm not talking about exit polls. I'm talking about incoming data right now. That doesn't mean Trump v Hillary polls. It means likability scores, popularity of the Republican party (or lack of) Obama's current approval ratings, Hillary's demographic strengths/weaknesses, females who overwhelmingly hate Trump, minorities who hate Trump, apathetic Republicans who hate Trump, the demographic shift of the Electoral College map over the last decade (blue)...on and on.

The GOP was blinded by residing in a echo chamber and claiming the polls were skewed by the liberal media. They even created their own "unskewed polls" and brought out talking heads who didn't know jack shit about statistics to refute what they were being told by everybody else.

Nate Silver called it, almost exactly to the EV. Some polls were off, some were way off, and others were on the money. A true statistician has the time to look at all of this data and arrive at a more acute conclusion. That's what Nate Silver did.

Lets look at an electoral map. Hillary's EV walking in the door-251 EVs. Now, NV will probably go blue, as well as Iowa. But I'll play the Devil's advocate and give four other states to Trump. That means Trump could win Fl, VA, OH and NC, and still lose.

The bad press applies overwhelmingly to the right side of the aisle. In other words while it's red meat for the GOP base, the rest of the country sees how transparent this is (13 Benghazi hearings that yielded absolutely nothing.) The amount of Democrat voters these "scandals" will sway are minimal.

They are not alike at all. Obama was well liked by most Americans, while Trump is overwhelmingly disliked. Obama's "unfavorable rating" in 2008 was 39%. Trump score reigns supreme at 67% (The highest in over three decades.) After the primaries Obama was embraced by the Democrat party. Trump's eventual nomination will strike a fatal blow to the GOP. They're despondent at this point already. Obama also had polling data that predicted he would win a general election, unlike Trump which shows he will lose to either Hillary or Bernie.

I agree Trump is being pushed along by a wave of people fed up with the Status Quo, but in order to win a General, he's going to need a lot more than what he's got.