# Frontrunners for Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, {DO NOT rehash past candidates} **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036 "2025-01-16T06:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 143
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2853 "2026-11-04T13:42:52Z")
Talerico’s victory speech sure sounded like the start of a presidential campaign to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2854 "2026-11-04T18:38:19Z")
Pennsylvania is pretty critical, so I wonder if they should just nominate their governor. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2855 "2026-11-04T19:59:17Z")
I think Ossoff is pretty clearly the candidate whose position improved most last night. Even in a very blue year, the magnitude of his win was impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2856 "2026-11-04T22:28:33Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Even in a very blue year, the magnitude of his win was impressive More importantly the election of a Democratic governor means he won’t be surrendering a vital “purple” seat to run. He has said he won’t, but everything just came up Ossoff if he decides to change his mind and the above bit of news makes it far easier for him to sell a change of heart. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2858 "2026-11-04T23:00:28Z")
I’m not sure Georgia even counts as purple anymore. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2859 "2026-11-04T23:11:45Z")
The Atlanta metro area isn’t getting any smaller. I realize a lot of its suburbs are red, but a lot of them are mixed and many are blue, too. See also the various large metro areas in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2860 "2026-11-04T23:13:21Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I’m not sure Georgia even counts as purple anymore Last five presidential cycles it has gone McCain, Romney, Trump, Biden (by a quarter percent, the smallest margin of any of these), Trump. It’s definitely not blue. Not yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2861 "2026-11-04T23:18:05Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > More importantly the election of a Democratic governor means he won’t be surrendering a vital “purple” seat to run. Yeah, that was my one argument against Ossoff. I think he’s just jumped to the top of the list. He’s still not a guarantee, but only because someone even better might emerge. That’s not a bad place for a political party to be. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2862 "2026-11-04T23:50:08Z")
As noted elsewhere, yesterday was a repudiation of naked kleptocracy, traitorism, and senility. It was not a repudiation of RW values, normal or Fascist. Nor will it slow foreign botnets and RW fantasy-based TV. Do not misread the room. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2863 "2026-11-05T00:58:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > As noted elsewhere, yesterday was a repudiation of naked kleptocracy, traitorism, and senility. It was Inflation and a stupid war- which caused part of the war. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2864 "2026-11-05T01:02:58Z")
That’s a full six year term for Ossoff, correct? Then isn’t there very little downside to him running even if he doesn’t win? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036/2865 "2026-11-05T03:34:17Z")
After consideration, my theory of the race has changed. This election was basically a referendum on Trump. The 2028 election will also be a referendum on Trump, even though he won’t be on the ballot. Therefore, although obviously a lot can change in two years and our strategy will need to be flexible, the default assumption right now should be that we’ll probably pick up another half dozen or so Senate seats in exotic locations and get close to 400 electoral votes. He’s not going to get any more popular and neither is his war. The relevant precedent is 2006, when a massive midterm Democratic win was followed by another landslide in 2008. So screw it, we have a free pass, we don’t need to agonize over who will be slightly more appealing to swing voters. We can just run AOC/Talarico. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028-do-not-rehash-past-candidates/1013036.md?page=142)