Does Clinton Need Primary Competition? Most Dems Say No

Hillary Clinton is the only Democrat to officially declare as a candidate for president -- at least so far. And she leads any other potential candidates by a very large margin in all of the polls. But some, mainly my cohorts on the left, want someone else to enter the race. Some don't think Clinton is liberal enough, and others just think a competitor would be good because it would create more debate on the issues and give Democrats a choice.

I disagree. I don't think Clinton needs a competitor. She's more liberal than many on the left think, and far more liberal than anyone the Republicans could nominate. And keeping those Republicans out of the White House is the most important concern in the 2016 election. Clinton doesn't need a Democrat to debate -- she'll be busy debating the crazy views of the Republicans. And it looks like most Democrats agree with me.

The YouGov Poll questioned a random sample of national Democrats between April 18th and 20th, and they found that about 3 out of 4 Democrats (74%) would be satisfied if Clinton remained the only Democratic candidate for their nomination. I think most of think feel that she has paid her dues and deserves her chance to run -- and that she represents the best chance we have to keep an extremist Republican out of the White House.

And it does look like the Republicans would like to nominate an extremist. So far, only three candidates have declared they are running for the GOP nomination -- and they are all far right extremists (Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio). And that is fine with most Republicans (which is scary). About 69% of Republicans said they would be satisfied if those were the only candidates to be in their primary.