status quo

a candidate wed to the status quo
hoped it's enough she's not the other guy
her focus groups assured her that it's so
it's in the bag, she need not even try
eight years elapsed in which the big banks grew
and we're still on the hook if they should fail
but her constituents were the rich Few
for whom a "penthouse" doesn't mean a jail
until November, anxieties mount
'though she nipped Sanders, riding his dark horse
as California readjusts the count
unbendingly, she grimly stayed the course
content the voters had no place to turn
she gave no hint she understands the Bern