Richard Ojeda would win in a landslide. Too bad he has no chance in the primaries.
I don’t know much about Ojeda, but I wouldn’t write him off.
I would love to see Bloomberg run - wish he would have given it more thought in 2016.
Klobuchar 2020
For me, the most interesting part of the book Game Change was about the White House meeting in late September to discuss the financial crisis. (It got little if any emphasis in the movie.) It wasn’t televised, so irrelevant to the campaign, but the author depicts Obama taking the lead at that meeting, and McCain playing the fool.
Seconded. Though I reserve the right to change my mind during the primary.
No, it’s a good thing that Ojeda would lose in the primaries. Voting for Trump, even if he regretted it afterwards, demonstrates sufficiently poor judgement that he shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near public office. What else would he do, that he would regret later?
I could swear I read somewhere (the internet!) that Hilary would NOT run in 2020. However, search results are contradictory. So what is the Straight Dope? Is Hilary In or Out for 2020?
She’s not in, but as of now, only *two *Democrats are officially in: Delaney and Ojeda.
How often have the first to announce in open fields won nominations?
She herself has said she isn’t running again.
An interesting piece of Ojeda from FiveThirtyEight.
On why he voted for Trump:
On presidential voting history:
On how he’s dealt with being a Democrat in a state that’s now pretty conservative:
He’s definitely an interesting candidate. I agree that Hillary and the Democratic Party ignored a specific segment of the population in 2016 that ended up swinging the election for Trump, but it seems this guy appeals to *that *population while potentially ignoring everyone else.
Yeah, I think Amy Klobuchar is more likely than Swalwell, let alone the no-hopers this thread started with. Seriously, I have to laugh at a thread about a whole bunch of underqualified white men with so much white male privilege they think anyone, let alone the Democratic Party, will vote for some obscure businessman or state-level pol with little to no national profile.
If you ask me, Warren/Harris seems like a good ticket to actually win with. Harris/O’Rourke might be OK. Of course, you could try Warren/O’Rourke, but at that point you have to call it “Betsy/Beto.” 
Mike Bloomberg doesn’t really have enough of a base, in my estimation. What’s his slogan going to be? “Let’s Gentrify America!”?
Funny, people said the exact same thing about Hillary voting for the Iraq War, and they were labeled purity ponies & Bernie Bros.
Hey now, just to clarify: Those guys I listed in the OP aren’t my wish list. They’re the actual candidates who have made their candidacy official. Klobuchar isn’t a candidate, that’s why she was left off of that specific list. As more people declare their candidacy, that list can be added to. That’s not to say Klobuchar isn’t worth discussing even before she makes a decision.
Usually, the candidates who announce this early are dark horses who are really running for Vice President on the ticket.
many of these little known people won’t even be in the race when the primary voting starts. And that can even happen to well known folks. Last time Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal quit in 2015 because they had very little support and money. A guy like Schultz can stay in the race (if he joins) since money is not a factor to him.
So, in other words, he’s seen how damaging to the area dependence on coal is, and his preferred solution is to support coal. The way to get those coal miners back to work is to close down the coal mines completely, and replace them with actual good jobs.
The guy would flame out in a general election. I think he’s just going for name recognition now-- to get his name in the media.
“Vanity candidacies” have long been a thing. Run for president. Be on TV, sell some books, get your positions into the national debate, etc. The problem is when they win.