The Democratic party needs to start grooming more of the younger members of the party to take leadership positions. They need fresh faces in there with the backing of the older members of the party, and who will reach out to white voters. They also need to work on getting Dem voters to vote in larger numbers during mid-terms and give much more attention to other races besides the Presidential races. The party can be pretty stupid and flat footed too often, especially during mid-terms. Dem voters only seem to get fired up when someone charismatic and/or an outsider is running for Presidents; otherwise, they seem to let the Republicans take the lead
Democrats already reach out the white middle class. I’m not sure what else they can do except use racist code and dog whistles like Trump, but I just don’t see that flying with Dems. That’s really the only “reaching out” Dems are missing.
She is if Ted Cruz is. He was in the exact same situation (foreign birth, one American parent). There were some cranks, such as the president-elect, who tendentiously suggested that he was not eligible, but that doesn’t seem to have been based on especially serious reasoning.
To the extent that we have a widely-believed definition of “natural born citizen,” it’s “a citizen who didn’t have to be naturalized,” but that’s not exactly binding law. If someone in that situation gets nominated and then elected and nothing happens to stop it, then we’ll have a precedent to point to and say that someone else is also allowed. The fact that Ted Cruz ran and was taken seriously, and his eligibility wasn’t really questioned except by Internet trolls like the president-elect, will be a point in favor of her eligibility.
The Dems need to run a populist with nationalist tendencies-someone who will unite the Sanders coalition with the white working-class voters who switched to Trump or stayed home. I’m thinking Brian Schweitzer, Steve Bullock, or Sherrod Brown.
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Could Obama not be put on the ticket as Vice-President? I would just assume if something happened to the president, they’d just skip over him and go to the Speaker of the House. In that vein, what if Obama ran and became a congressman, would he be allowed to be speaker, seeing as he was not allowed to be Prez and he would now be 2nd in line of succession ?
Why would Barack Obama want to be Vice President of the United States, when he will soon have the best job in the world: Ex President of the United States.
When that woman is the best candidate.
Someone without significant baggage. The GOP is fantastic at blowing things out of proportion, and it would help to not have any major molehills that could be turned into mountains.
I would add Michelle Obama, who I’ve seen talk of, to the “no” list for this reason.
So January of 2017?
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Not for 2020 and i will likely get laughed off the boards since he lost a CLOSE Senate race to that crook Roy Blunt, but I really think Jason Kander is far from done at 35 and is a rising Democratic star who IMO is the picture of what the Democratic party NEEDS to become.
So… Kander 2028 
Michelle has zero baggage, so that’s not the problem. The problem with Michelle is that she’s just not qualified and I don’t think voters will go for a purely dynastic choice. Michelle’s only reason to be considered is that she’s the wife of an ex-President. I just don’t see that flying with a general electorate. Which is why Michelle will never do it. She knows she might win a primary due to name recognition and voter loyalty. But she can’t win an election with just Obama fans. Even Obama, with his mighty coalition of voters, needed reasonable support from independents.
Plus every insider report I’ve ever read about Michelle is that she hates being first lady. Remember when Obama said to Republicans clapping about him having no more races to run “because I won both of them?” Michelle was actually the one that started the applause. She is so done with this.
Sure they do, just like Republicans reach out to African-American voters. It’s not enough to just say, “Well, our policies will help you” when you’ve got policies actually targeted at other groups but nothing specifically targeted at the people you’re supposedly reaching out to.
Kander’s loss makes that very unlikely, but yes, Kander is definitely a future star. But his path got slowed down a little. Tammy Duckworth lost her first race too, and of course a young Bill Clinton was defeated for reelection. I think Obama also lost his first race, didn’t he? So no worries about Kander, he’ll probably be a top recruit for the next governor’s race.
They need someone eminently likeable. So I suggest a celebrity, but one that is smart and will defer to others when he doesn’t know. Maybe after Trump, those who keep saying “No, I won’t do it” will decide to try.
Though the “outsider” thing may be old hat after Trump.
Sadly, I think any successful female candidate will need to be considered fuckable by at least a plurality of the male electorate. I truly believe that.
Another vote for Anderson Cooper. Or Ben Affleck.
After watching Trumpland, I think Michael Moore could hold his own against Trump or whoever else, assuming he started preparing for that soon.
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I don’t normally judge candidates by speeches, but Stephen Colbert’s unscripted speech at the end of his election special told us a lot about who he really is as a person. Democrats could do a lot worse than Colbert.
Update on Jason Kander: he’s thrown his hat in the ring for DNC chair:
Sherrod Brown or Corey Booker. And we need a Latino on the ticket, probably at the VP spot.
(15 minutes and counting…)
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