She was better last night than the previous appearance. She is certainly less interesting than most. For me, that’s a plus. I long for an uninteresting president. Just go to work, do your job, and stay off twitter. I don’t need anything but a return to normalcy, decency, and honesty. She has all that. Not my first pick currently, but I’d feel fine if she wins it all. (I do think she’d beat Trump in the industrial mid-west)
One of my concerns with a Klobuchar presidency is constant staff turnover—a new Chief of Staff every six weeks, a new National Security Advisor every few months, etc. On a positive note, she probably wouldn’t be tweeting insults at people after they leave.
My state holds its primary on Super Tuesday and I’ve been planning to vote for Biden, but if he does poorly in Nevada and SC, I’ll probably switch to Amy.
I can’t. Not knowing the name of the President of
Mexico as a sitting US senator who was just working on the free trade agreement.
Interesting…I’ll have another look but my first reaction is not to go for the person I need to pretzel myself to like in lieu of someone I do like.
To be clear though, I’d happily vote for Klobuchar in the general election if she wins the nomination (emphasis on “happily”). She is just not my first choice in the primary.
I’m coming around to her by process of elimination. Biden looks like he needs his embalming fluid topped off, Bloomberg may have enough skeletons in his closet to open his own anatomy class, Sanders is going to be bludgeoned with hammers and sickles if he gets the nomination, Warren seems to be fading, and I’m not sure if the US is ready to vote for a gay man with little experience. Amy is like a bowl of vanilla ice cream- pleasantly bland but not exciting. I’m starting to think she’s exactly what we need after four years of tweetosaurus.
I heard this too. I guess a lot of them left Warren and Biden to become Klobuchar voters.
I can.
President’s name might seem important to you, but it might seem irrelevant to others. When she was “working on the free trade agreement” was she negotiating with the President personally?
Are you worried her IQ is on the low side? She “was valedictorian at Wayzata High School [and] received her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in political science in 1982 from Yale University.”
Were you also worried when Obama seemed to think there were 58 states?
Do you know Sanders polls way better than anyone else in a match-up against Trump?
Is that why a lot of South Carolina Republicans are going to be voting for Bernie in the primary? If we put this guy on top of the ticket, we not only don’t get the Senate, we lose the House too.
SC is one state:
I have no idea where you are getting losing the senate (which dems do not have now and are very unlikely to get in 2020) and also losing the House (after AOC rocked the political landscape by beating one of the most powerful congressman).
No I do not know that. Because it is not true. Latest (Morning Consult) has Bloomberg on top with +5 and Sanders at +2. Not that it means too much yet.
I am hoping that Klobuchar brings on some energy and ability to improvise next debate.
Just to point out the stakes here, if the Democratic ticket manages to win in November without a Senate majority (or Senate 50-50), they will be unable to fill any Supreme Court vacancy. Republicans reading this probably are thinking that all the Democrats would have to do is nominate a true moderate. But, aside from Merrick Garland being one, just the fact that a Democratic president nominated someone will convince Republicans to refuse to bring up the nomination, or vote against.
I like Amy. So I’d like to now say that Klobuchar has the political skills to walk us back from the brink of such a constitutional crisis. But I can’t. The age of miracles is past.
I don’t know if conventional wisdom applies anymore. I used to believe that about Trump, that he was so radical that the GOP would lose the presidency and the senate.
instead they kept the senate and won the presidency.
General election polls are less than useless today, even if they showed Pete with a landslide.
AOC has a very big mouth but she’s powerless. I think I had more political power as president of my 3rd grade class.
Trump is radical when it comes to incivility. But his public political positions are, with some exceptions, not that far right. See:
Started liking Amy a bit more, seems more reasonable on some of the issues of what I’ve researched on her so far, although, was surprised to hear about her votes on Trump’s judges. I hope with her having more money in her campaign now since last debate, she’ll continue to rise.
Watched her on Bill Maher, then an interview on CNN or something.
She’s meh. Neither offensive nor inspiring. As a bureaucrat, Secretary of Commerce or HUD, she’d be very competent. As a POTUS, she’d be ineffective, IMO.
Much as I would love to see a return to normalcy, that bus has left the depot. Unless and until the senate is out of GOP control, the Democrats will be frustrated and denied meaningful success at every key juncture that requires congressional support. Mitch McConnell will continue to be the thorn in the side of the next Dem administration. I don’t see Amy as having the political skills or clout to affect change in that respect.
Last I checked, the Ds are almost as likely to lose the House as to win the Senate.
And I don’t know if AOC’s election points to what you think. She won in a District that was certain to elect a D. Have any hard-left Ds won in Districts where the Rs are competitive?
I worry that it’s more likely that the emergence of Congresswomen like AOC may lead “independents” to vote for Rs as backlash.
(Sadly I just watched the Telemundo interview. I didn't care about forgetting President's name, but I didn't see a candidate with charisma, or inspiring enthusiasm. I'm running out of choices. :( Silly as it seems, I wonder if some stunt of desperation — e.g. **Draft Michelle Obama** — might now be our best chance.)While I didn’t live in AOC’s district, I lived close to the edge of it. A lot of my friends were in her district and the area where I did my shopping, workouts and dining out was in her district. So I’m familiar with her campaign as well as they other campaigns in that district to elect progressives to local offices.
It worked because they campaigned aggressively in a traditionally low turnout election and blind-sided their opponent. It’s one of those dark blue districts where the primary IS the deciding election - while there was a Republican opposite her on the November ballot, he didn’t even file the papers he needed to fundraise. Republicans literally weren’t going to waste a dime on that race.
But she’s going to have trouble in a high turnout election. And there is substantial dislike of her among moderate Democrats in her district - a lot of residents ( including myself) that owned property and businesses in the area were really pissed off at the impression that the local progressives killed the Amazon deal and there is a lot of organized opposition.
AOC got damn lucky that Abolish ICE was exactly the right issue when the children in cages stories and photos started going viral. I think it sucks that the squad dominated the 2018 election news rather than all the moderate Democrats who actually flipped the House. I do think she could be vulnerable as it seems she’s become far more interested in being a national figure than representing her district. She’d better have a damn good staff to kiss and coddle her constituents, I don’t think they voted for her only to see her more interested in Bernie Sanders and running her mouth on national TV than in representing her district.
Klobuchar not knowing the Mexican President is a big deal to me. It’s an interview with Spanish media in the Southwest and the trade deal just passed. Trade deals have been kinda a big thing in Democratic politics especially with unions. No one was asking her gotcha questions about Brexit or a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian question or the president of Poland