Response. Okay, missed that, sorry.
In order to win, I’d have to dead first.
EH, are you proposing a tontine? I thought they were illegal.
Don’t dead, open inside!
Kevin Johnson’s career just ended, so my comment about him above no longer applies.
Ah, so did I. Thanks.
In democracies all political parties in power sow the seeds of their own demise. It’s a matter of time not if.
We will certainly see a party other than the Democrats holding the Presidency in our lifetimes. That party may or may not be the Republicans, and they may or may not call themselves Republicans.
Given what the batshit caucus is saying about Paul Ryan right now, *he *might end up being the future of the Democratic Party.
Common guys your still believe in democracy? Like a Batman?
I’m not sure about common guys (I think I’m pretty uncommon myself), but my still prefers socio-anarchic communes itself, at least when it’s not fully occupied making moonshine. My still is kind of an airhead, though, so I wouldn’t take anything too seriously from it.
I don’t know about Batman’s still, but I am intensely curious.
And are you… prepared?
Like a Batman,
Fightin’ evil for the very first time
Like a Ba-aa-t-man,
Leave your cowl next to mine
What they said. The ® victories downballot in 2010-2014 depleted the “bench” of sitting office holders (and BTW so did the current President himself drafting Dem elected officials to his cabinet, which as mentioned is not a favorable direct step) except for the older establishment liberals; the next (D) generation already leapfrogged the sequence (Barack Obama is 54) but did not clear the deck of the born-before-Heartbreak-Hotel-hit-#1 crowd (because why would they, that group were needed) and going back to the prior point many who did come up in the 06 and 08 “winning” years then lost in 2010 and 12; and the Clinton machine, after 2008’s upset, got right back on to building itself up early in the cycle into something to think *more *than twice about challenging.
Also, the succesful rise of the more ideologically hardline factions culled the Republican herd of many of their *own *older figures, who would be too compromising for the new generation anyway, and made room for new prospects.
Consider this: Obama was age 47 when elected, Bill Clinton was 46 when he was. A new generation did show up on cue, but the 1945-1955 cohort feels “heck, we’re just catching our third wind”.
nice!
Or he could mean that is going to kill us all off Jim Jones-style in the next 8-16 years.
Obviously there are young Democrats, they just don’t get the press because, basically Obama and Hillary suck up all the coverage. It was kind of like that in 2008 for instance, when Bush / Cheney had been soaking up all of the attention for 8 years, there wasn’t a lot of young Republican contenders, and old John McCain got the nomination. Then when Obama / Biden won that opened up space for young Republicans to be heard. If the Republicans win this time, you can bet there will be a surge of young Democrats getting press coverage.
You get young officeholders by electing them downballot. Bonus points if you can elect them in swing states or hostile territory. The Democrats only have bright young future stars in blue states. In the GOP field, nearly all of the contenders who are officeholders come from blue or purple states: Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Christie, and prior to his exit, Scott Walker.
Such candidates have a better shot because they are used to campaigning for the votes of people who might not normally vote for their party.
Well, that’s certainly not true of Rubio. He’s always run as a hardliner in Florida (other than his immigration stance) and crossed his fingers that enough conservatives would turn out to elect him. But that’s a good point about the others.
Nixon, Hickenlooper, Bullock (govs), Bennet, Brown, Heinrich, Tester (sens).
Purple-state Democrats exist, they just don’t get very much exposure because Obama and now Hillary so dominate the national scene. I agree with the posters above - if Hillary loses (actually, even if she doesn’t), you will see a whole host of new young faces (some from Blue states, some from Purple ones) vying for national attention.