i wonder if there’s a prominent democrat who hasn’t decided to run for president?
bill richardson, hillary clinton, barak obama, john edwards, joe biden, and so on.
my pick for a good ticket right now would be hillary clinton and bill richardson.
barak obama’s a very interesting candidate, of course, partially because he doesn’t have much of a record to run against(and, of course, he’s bright and principled). but 90% of running a successful national campaign is knowing how to run a successful national campaign, and that’s where senator clinton(and bill richardson, given his experience) has everyone beat hands down(that and she can financially out-raise just about everyone else 10 to 1).
i also think that a hillary clinton-wesley clark ticket could be really interesting, and very strong on foreign affairs/defense.
wesley clark would make such a good running mate:
5 star general, from the south, rhodes scholar, 1/2 jewish, very bright, very telegenic.
i hope that the democrats remember that he’s on their side and that he’s clearly interested.
the big question for the next election is: what will the battleground states end up being?
the goal for the democrats, of course, is to turn gop red states into battleground states. i actually think that it’s going to hinge on missouri, tennessee, virginia, and some of the western states.
if the dem’s can get the gop to spend hard in what are traditionally red states then the gop will be spread too thin to be very competitive in the 2004 battleground states like pennsylvania and ohio and florida(these 3 should, demographically speaking, be blue states. it’s for a variety of pernicious reasons that in the last 2 presidential election they ended up being considered battleground states. ohio now has a democratic governor, so it’s much more likely to be a solid blue state, electorally, especially with diebold coming under increased pressure to issue paper trails for electronic voting…kind of sad that ohio was only a battleground state due to gop and diebold corruption…).
and i wonder who the gop will run?
i hope it’s sam brownback. he’s so far to the right on so many issues that he doesn’t have a chance with mainstream america.
mike huckabee and john mccain are the two most viable candidates. and of the two i actually see mike huckabee as being more competitive as he:
a-has solid conservative credentials(safe to say that the evangelicals don’t trust mccain or romney).
b-is smart and personable.
c-is from the south.
so let’s hope that mike huckabee doesn’t get the nomination…
ok, enough about politics for a while.
i just think that the coming presidential election is going to be really entertaining, and it’s fun to prognosticate.
-moby
