I maintain that Mark Warner will get the nod next time around
Jragghen Send a noteboard - 07/11/2012 09:57:21 PM
Former governor of VA, left office with a 70% approval rating. Went on to win the Senate seat there in '08 by a sizable margin (roughly 2:1). Genuine self-made rich person (first guy in his family to go to college and was one of the initial investors/founders of Nextel).
There was the possibility that he might have run in '08, but his daughters were of an age where he didn't want to expose them to the campaign scrutiny. That's no longer an issue.
I'm not being hyperbolic in saying that his example is pretty much entirely why Kaine got elected governor in '06 (along with Webb for Senate), and didn't play a small part in Obama's election in '08. If he ran for the Presidency, Virginia would be an outright lock - there's not even an in-state Republican politician who could challenge him there.
There was the possibility that he might have run in '08, but his daughters were of an age where he didn't want to expose them to the campaign scrutiny. That's no longer an issue.
I'm not being hyperbolic in saying that his example is pretty much entirely why Kaine got elected governor in '06 (along with Webb for Senate), and didn't play a small part in Obama's election in '08. If he ran for the Presidency, Virginia would be an outright lock - there's not even an in-state Republican politician who could challenge him there.
My own thoughts on the election results
- 07/11/2012 06:12:26 PM
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it's hard to say romney would have been better when he took every side of every issue
- 07/11/2012 07:10:25 PM
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Do you think Republicans got the message, or will it take one more unnecessary defeat? *NM*
- 07/11/2012 07:11:50 PM
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Good points all. Somehow I don't really think they'll take them to heart any time soon, though...
- 07/11/2012 08:00:56 PM
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Re: Hillary.
- 07/11/2012 08:13:25 PM
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A lot of people seem to think she will.
- 07/11/2012 08:26:57 PM
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Biden hinted he was thinking about running. But he looks older, so that might benefit her.
- 07/11/2012 09:18:49 PM
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I maintain that Mark Warner will get the nod next time around
- 07/11/2012 09:57:21 PM
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Um
- 07/11/2012 09:50:08 PM
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Oh. I must've missed that.
- 07/11/2012 10:03:28 PM
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Well there has been a slightly more important US politics story for the media to cover of late
- 07/11/2012 10:18:28 PM
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- 07/11/2012 10:18:28 PM
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Snowe? Seriously? Chris Christie is far more likely.
- 07/11/2012 09:52:25 PM
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Chris Christie *was* far more likely. I expect his party to eat him alive after Sandy.
- 07/11/2012 09:59:17 PM
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Yes, but Christie gained the respect of a lot of moderates for that.
- 07/11/2012 10:20:08 PM
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Moderates don't vote in the primaries *NM*
- 07/11/2012 10:21:50 PM
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Enough of them vote to ensure a Christie victory in a GOP primary.
- 08/11/2012 05:09:24 AM
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Has been seen as not entirely Republican for quite a while, I think.
- 07/11/2012 10:08:15 PM
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- 07/11/2012 10:08:15 PM
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Dems went through this a generation ago when Reagan branded extremists and made "liberal" a slur
- 11/11/2012 06:10:00 PM
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It will be interesting whether the GOPs financiers convince its primary voters you are right.
- 11/11/2012 05:07:43 PM
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