The 2018 midterms are pretty well wrapped up, Florida, Arizona, Georgia and a dozen or so House races notwithstanding.
So it’s only a matter of time before the ol’ Democratic ring gets peppered with presidential-hopeful hats. So far we only have two (legitimate) hats out there, and tons of speculation, but I thought we could use a central place for keeping track of who’s in, who’s out and who’s waving from the corner.
Who’s in: John Delaney, Congressman from MD, who’s been declared since July 2017. A pro-business moderate who didn’t run for re-election this year to focus on running for president. From what I can see, he was a largely inconsequential member of Congress.
Richard Ojeda, state senator and vet from WV who earned two Bronze Stars. A life-long Democrat who voted for Trump, which he now regrets. Pro-pot, pro-labor, has an MBA, just lost his Congressional race. The grandson of an illegal migrant from Mexico.
If Hillary is the nominee Trump can start writing his inauguration speech right now. I’d like to think she and her people are smarter than that.
I don’t know enough about the two candidates in the OP to make an informed decision. Ojeda has an interesting profile but “voted for Trump” and “lost Congressional race” are not confidence inspiring. He’s never held a position higher than State Senator? I know that the state senators here in TN, at least, are not an impressive lot.
I’m reading that Ojeda is anti-abortion, which might be fine for a local race, but I think that’s going to be a non-starter on a National level for the Dems.
The detailed vetting is the campaign’s job. All anyone knew about Sarah Palin before she was picked was that she was the most popular governor in the country. Failure to vet her thoroughly was McCain’s fault.
There are a lot of Democratic candidates being touted by various supposedly smart people who will turn out to be morons once Katie Couric quizzes them on basic facts.
Net approval of +52 (at least it was in January), which was highest, but more so, in a state with a +24 D lean.
Right behind is Larry Hogan (R) MD, also a popular R in D land.
Ojeda running? Hey I had high hopes for him in WV but he got whomped. Of the two officially announced who is gone first?
As an aside, if there’s anyone left who hadn’t heard of the 2012 HBO Movie “Game Change” that detailed the process by which Schmidt/McCain landed on Palin as the running-mate, it’s beyond fascinating. 76 hours ago, I’d never heard of the flick, then by 73 hours ago I subscribed to the notion that Julianne Moore is the greatest actress of our generation. Not to mention Sarah Paulson as Nicolle Wallace, and a nice cameo from the hilarious stuttering lawyer of ‘My Cousin Vinny’ portraying Joe Lieberman.
