Your Thoughts? McAuliffe/Hagan 2020? Reasons For and Against?

[TrollBuster9090]

[Angry Dragon]

1. too early ............ get rid of Trump first

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not another old retread dem, please.

[TrollBuster9090]

3. I share your opinion about old retreads. I just don't think either of them IS one.

They're not spring chickens, but they're not what I'd classify as old retreads either. Trump just proved, even to Republicans, that EXPERIENCE is IMPORTANT. But having experience while being in your late 60s to late 70s might be problematic. ie-Joe Biden (74), Nancy Pelosi (77), Steny Hoyer (78), Al Gore (69), Bill Richardson (69), Howard Dean (68) ...even Elizabeth Warren is 68.

Compared to them, McAuliffe, at 60, and Hagan at 64 are BABIES. You can't get much younger than that, and still be considered a heavyweight.

I'd also put Xavier Becerra, Kamala Harris, and Wendy Davis in the running too; but their demographics and electoral college math are all wrong. Democrats won't gain anything in Texas by having Davis on the ticket, or anything in California by having Harris or Becerra on the ticket. Virginia and North Carolina are both purple states that could be swung blue by having them on the ticket.

[bettyellen]

6. Are you kidding - I think Kamala has great demographics!

I think you mean geographical? Hmmm, save that for he VP slot- Franken.

[Demsrule86]

11. McAuliffe has been a great governor. He is not a retread.

You should read. support Democrats.

[Bladewire]

4. Kamala Harris and VP McAuliffe

[Warpy]

5. Two southerners?

No thank you. Such a tightly regional ticket would be a turnoff to much of the country and besides, it's too early.

We need to get rid of Drumpf and we need to work on Congress in 2018. Then it might be time to start throwing out names. However, picking both from just one region is not smart.

[Retrograde]

26. Like Clinton and Gore?

From Arkansas and Tennessee, respectively.

While McAuliffe may be God's gift to Virginia (I heard him say as much in an interview) I'm not overly impressed with his efforts on behalf of Democrats nationally.

[unc70]

7. Kay Hagan's health is not good

You should search to see what is publicly known. Her husband sent out an update maybe 4-6 weeks ago.

[obamanut2012]

8. 1. the conservadem Hagan couldn't beat the teabagger tillis AND

2. Her health is bad.


You can sell me on McAuliffe/Harris 2020

[FSogol]

9. McAulliffe has been a pleasant surprise as Gov. He is gearing up for a run in 2020.

That said, there is nothing to be gained by promoting someone so early. It seems that some of the pure among us are salivating at the chance to start bashing Democrats. See Corey Booker and Kamla Harris.

[phylny]

10. I live in Virginia and I like Terry McAuliffe a great deal, but

I believe his relationship with the Clinton's is simply too much baggage. And, as a white woman, I believe we need one or more person of color on the ticket to reflect how our country's demographics are changing. As a WOMAN, I believe this time around, we need a man to run for president, and a woman for VP. I think our backward country needs to be eased into getting used to a woman as president (and I know, it's ridiculous, but I think it's true).

[Demsrule86]

12. I don't agree...the Clintons know everyone...stop allowing the GOP to choose our candidates...hint

we will continue to lose.

[phylny]

14. You have a good point :) nt

[Demsrule86]

15. Yeah, I get that we want to avoid having demonized candidates...but no matter who we pick, they

will be demonized.

[TrollBuster9090]

20. Good Point. If having been involved with the Clinton Administration is a disqualifier

then there would BE no Democratic Party heavyweights. And by heavyweights I mean people with practical experience. The Republicans may have become Luddites and nihilists who think that experience EQUALS corruption and 'elitist' attitudes, but just look where that philosophy has landed them.

[Demsrule86]

24. It is true...you said it better than I did. Thanks.

[Blue_Tires]

13. My thoughts as a Virginian:

CONCENTRATE ON MOTHER FUCKING 2018 FIRST!

[TrollBuster9090]

21. It's the same thing.

I'm not suggesting the Party CHOOSE candidates yet, but they absolutely SHOULD be working to raise the public profile of a number of candidates LONG before them.

The only reason why anybody even KNOWS who Kamala Harris is (on the national scale) is because her fellow Democrats HANDED her some of the fights that she's been involved in. The only way to win is for the Democrats to work together to start raising the profiles of their "star" candidates EARLY.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. I'd back McAulliffe. Not sure about Hagan.

[tritsofme]

17. McAuliffe earned his right to be part of the 2020 conversation. Hagan is essentially a nobody

Who was booted from the Senate after one term. Strange combination.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Harris/Castro

or Booker/Castro

Castro is a good speaker and could drive up Hispanic American turnout, even though he is not fluent in Spanish.

Booker and Harris are both charismatic and since Reagan became president, the more charismatic has always won. (or, in the case of Dukakis v Bush, the least "negative" of charisma)

[Lee-Lee]

19. We don't need a white male at the top of the ticket

And Kay's health is not where it needs to be.

On top of that there Are some issues unresolved from her husband and sons doing solar work with stimulus funds that they would dig up and use to sling dirt, including her husband possibly falsifying records to the state on her sons application for an electrical contractor license. It's nothing big, but it would be drug out into a big deal.

[Kingofalldems]

22. Hmmm. Not really a good try there.

[AngryAmish]

23. More white baby boomer men? No thnx.

[WoonTars]

25. No thanks.

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