Looks like Kerry has wrapped it up.
I was hoping for Dean, but the important thing is, No More Bush.
So, come November, I will happily go to the polls and cast my vote for John Kerry.
This time, I hope not only the Democrats get a majority of votes again, but that the winner actually gets to go to the White House!
Any predictions on who the VP candidate will be?
My guess: John Edwards
The Texas Primaries are next week, and I’ll vote for Edwards.
What?
This just in- Al Gore had about 500,000 more electoral votes than Bush (although it was actually a plurality, not a majority). That and DMark is referring to some goings-on in Florida that you may have heard about. 
Nitpick: Gore had more of the popular vote. Bush, by dint of Florida, had the electoral majority.
I haven’t been paying too much attention, but I read Kerry’s Victory Speech and was really impressed with him, especially with the props to Dean.
I for one was rather impressed by his speech last night.
It had to be good to keep me watching while that slimy two-faced bastard Sean Hannity was running commentary over it…
I’m definitely seeing Bob Graham or John Edwards as his running mate. He needs Southern votes, and Southerners are too insular and too dumb to vote for any ticket that doesn’t have some south in it.
That’s at best not entirely clear. There were very skeevy goings-on in Florida - counting invalid military ballots (since the military vote is overwhelmingly Republican), premature stops of the recount, and several other questionable doings - so I’d say that it’s uncertain who actually won Florida.
Over-generalize much?
Don’t forget all the (mostly black) voters that weren’t even allowed to try their hand at navigating a ballot because they had a similar name to a convicted felon.
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/print.html
Fine. Too insular or too dumb to vote in significant numbers for any ticket that doesn’t have some South in it.
Yes, I’m being pretty hard on the people of the South, but I’m pretty sure you could count on one hand the number of times a northern candidate has carried more than two states north of the Mason-Dixon.
Can we please not open the fucking Florida can of worms yet again in this thread? Regardless of whatever shenanigans may or may not have happened in Florida in 2000, the only point being made by me is that the statement that Gore won an “electoral” majority is factually incorrect. He won the popular vote but he did not win a majority of the Electoral College votes. If he had, he’d be sitting in the White House today. If you want to bitch about the fact that he isn’t, take it to the Pit.
Now, as to who Kerry should pick for VP, I started a thread which sank like a rock. Looking back at it I think for the most part my pros and cons on each of my suggestions still stand. I agree with the pundits who are saying that there’s no single Democrat who can deliver a Southern state from the second slot. My personal preference would be a Midwestern governor from a battleground state. This would balance the ticket from an experiential standpoint and also geographically. It’s IMHO more important for the Democrats to shore up support in the Midwest (especially Ohio and Michigan) than it is to try to make inroads into the South. Assuming that Nader doesn’t again act as a spoiler (and I can’t imagine anyone in their right minds who voted for Nader in 2000 instead of Gore voting for Nader again instead of “not-Bush”) then the chances are good that Kerry will pick up Florida anyway, without pandering to a SOuth that doesn’t really seem to care by putting a Southerner on the ticket.
John Kerry, IMHO, is a turkey. I’m in the ABB part of this, but out of all of the candidates, he and Edwards repulsed me most. A big part is my selfish desire to have a non-homophobic president that isn’t afraid of gay marriage.
It looks like the process for running mate is already being discussed:
I think it was in an Op-Ed article today in the NY Times that someone suggested Bill Clinton as a potential VP… Technically it’s not against the Constitution, he’s not being voted to the office of president and even in the event of Kerry’s inability to lead the nation Clinton gaining executive power again still wouldn’t be unconstitutional.
Though it’d probably be a death wish for the Kerry campaign.
I saw Bill Clinton’s name bandied around elsewhere (and not just my post in Otto’s thread 
).
Hillary ain’t gonna happen now. 2008 and 2012, maybe.
Did you mean “south of the Mason-Dixon”?
How is Edwards going to pull in southern states from the number 2 spot when he isn’t pulling them in from the number 1 spot? Okay, props for South Carolina but that was it, wasn’t it?
That said, as Kerry supporter I am in favor of Kerry-Edwards from the viewpoint of having a VP who would be able to step in if necessary. After Kerry’s second term Edwards should have the experience to win.