So Who Is Really Left In the Race?

It's three months until the first votes in Iowa, and I'm actually writing about who is left in the race for President.  Among the Democrats, there are just two contenders left:  the first is Hillary Clinton and the second is the Department of Justice.  Unless DOJ indicts Hillary, she is going to be the Democrat nominee.  All that momentum that Bernie Sanders claimed has gone up in smoke.  The Demcrats have Hillary -- or, as it seems to me -- the Democrats are stuck with Hillary.  They have a candidate that no one trusts and no one believes.  That means that all of her promises are even more hollow than those of the usual politician.  Once she completes her triumph over Sanders by moving left, won't she move back to the center for the general election?  Most likely!

On the GOP side, the 14 candidates are mostly props for debates.  Here's a list of the zombies, you know, the ones who are dead but still walking:  Santorum, Jindal, Pataki, Huckabee, and -- after last night -- Kasich, Bush and Paul.  There is no way that these guys could ever win.  Christie is on life support.  Unless his good performance in the early debate last night helps him, he too is toast.  That leaves Trump, Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Fiorina still in the running.  My prediction is that polls will show this consolidation to an even greater extent in the near future.  Much can happen before people vote, but the candidate is going to be one of these five people.