Yes.
The next President is going to need an adviser who is an expert in both economics and law if we’re going to fix things in America. Maybe a person who taught those things at a top school like Harvard Law School. Maybe someone who has written a lot of books on the subject that have been used as textbooks over the years. Maybe even someone who has been an adviser to the President on these subjects in the past.
Oh, wait.
I have given up on predicting what people want. The experts all said we’d never elect a black man and we got two terms of Obama. The experts all said we’d never elect a racist asshole and we got Trump. And in the past, when we chose who we thought would probably win instead of who we really wanted (Kerry, Dukakis, Gore) we lost.
Vote for who you want. Support who you want. You may be surprised at how well you do.
Mind you, as a Political Science grad who worked on political campaigns and runs a political blog and taught political science at the college level, you could consider me an “expert” — and I’m one of those experts who has been proven wrong.
I now think what is most important when people vote is personality and charisma, which can overcome any negatives a candidate may have. “Do they look like a President?” should be the main question.
I’d love to see a Warren / Harris ticket, but people are saying they can’t win. I think that the kind of person who would refuse to vote for two women on the ticket probably isn’t going to vote for a Democrat anyway. I think we can win by getting our base excited and actually coming out to vote, like they did for Obama. There are more of us than them, and when we vote, we win.
Let’s just have some fun with a meaningless poll this far before any primary.
Not everyone is convinced Hillary Clinton or even Joe Biden will run in 2016.
Who do you think will run for the Democratic primary?
Not who you think will win; not who would you like to run. Who do you think will run?
You can vote for up to four.
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