# Just on CNN: Oprah Winfrey seriously thinking about running for POTUS in 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 8, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148 "2018-01-08T16:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148/121 "2018-01-11T20:01:51Z")
I’d support most other Democrats (certainly all of the ones who get the most press about 2020) over Oprah in the primary, but I’d vote for Oprah vs Trump in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_lining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148/122 "2018-01-11T20:39:16Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > What could possibly go wrong with this?!?!? Sorry, Oprah, I think you should stick to acting and “60 Minutes”. I highly doubt Winfrey will run for office. A month ago, her favorability rating was likely very high. I don’t care who you are, once you announce your going to run for president, your favorability ratings drop like a rock. And therein lies the problem as she makes her living on media and TV shows, without a true heir to take over the business. Besides Oprah is very good as asking questions, but how would she fare answering them? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148/123 "2018-01-11T20:49:39Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’d support most other Democrats (certainly all of the ones who get the most press about 2020) over Oprah in the primary, but I’d vote for Oprah vs Trump in a heartbeat. I don’t see elections as an either/or proposition. I think of voting more like jury duty, where my responsibility is to be as objective as possible about a candidate’s fit with my principles regardless of how I feel about the other guy. We got Trump because, in my view, many conservatives knowingly voted against their own values out of fear of the alternative. That’s why I would be a hypocrite to vote for an unqualified candidate just because I hated the other guy. If Oprah ends up on the ballot I’ll write someone else in. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148/124 "2018-01-11T23:28:44Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’d support most other Democrats (certainly all of the ones who get the most press about 2020) over Oprah in the primary, but I’d vote for Oprah vs Trump in a heartbeat. That basically describes my reaction, too. I’d say ‘some other Democrats’ rather than ‘most other Democrats’ for the question of primary support, but basically that’s it. Oprah is a great orator. It would be nice for the Democrats to have someone who can put across the ideals of the Democratic party in a stirring way, rather than a buttoned-down bureaucrat. And Oprah, undoubtedly, can act decisively, delegate, surround herself with competent people, and other management-skill requisites of a President, as she’s proven by building a massively-successful business from the ground up. I don’t like Oprah’s support of woo, though. And of course she’d lose all the votes of the many Democrats who manage find a fatal flaw in every candidate who fails to be male. Those are real negatives for her as a candidate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-on-cnn-oprah-winfrey-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-potus-in-2020/806148.md?page=6)