IOW, he has picked up and unified the birthers, white supremacists, and others of that ilk in a way that prior GOP candidates couldn’t manage, since they cared about not alienating the folks in the middle of the political spectrum.
She is going to do better than Bill did. The black community likes both the Clintons very much, and she will not only have Bill stumping for her, she will have Obama out on the campaign trail pushing her hard to everyone. This article on TPM has some ideas and quotes from various pollsters about this very question. (TPM is a liberal site, and the majority of the people in the article are Dems, but there is one Republican pollster quoted as warning to expect a large African-American turnout this fall.)
The President is going to make a big difference for Hillary, I think. They’ll be campaigning together in Wisconsin on Weds. Come September and October, Obama can do her a lot of good in battleground states.
It’s hard to be aware of how much she won the Black demographic the primary by (Obamaesque margins) and at the same time be too worried that she is going to lose much Black support.
She is likely to do nearly as well as Obama did with that demographic and Booker as VP would add little.
The position may make little sense for Warren (as articulated here) but for many of those same reasons it makes plenty of sense for a Clinton administration to have her on the inside team in VP, expressing her views and knowing that she will be heard and her thoughts considered but that she has to ultimately defer to Clinton’s final say, rather than as a powerful force potentially sniping at them from the Senate.
The bigger question to me is not why Clinton would want her on the team, but whether or not Warren would or should want the job.
I sincerely doubt Biden would be interested. He’s already done it, and doesn’t need any more experience in the position if he decides to run for Prez in the future (unlikely, but possible).
Not smart. Let’s not forget that Democrats have Islamophobia issues too. Remember the UAE ports controversy? Democrats led the charge on that one and their base ate it up.
Harry Reid has been accused of squelching the candidacy of an Arab-American Muslim because he doesn’t think the public will go for it. Heck, he knows that not even a Democratic primary voting base would go for it.
Reporting on a Wall Street Journal article, TPM says Clinton is vetting Elizabeth Warren, among others, although the vetting appears to be pretty superficial so far:
Just read Garcetti’s Wikipedia page. He would make a very interesting pick, instantly playing on a lot of the themes of the campaign.
I’m always a fan of picking smart people for government, because I think most of the stuff that crosses their desk isn’t especially political. He certainly checks that box, with some checkmark to spare.
