I am personally hoping for Gillibrand, but she’s probably waiting in the wings for another year because Cuomo wants to run. I don’t see Cuomo having any chance in the primary— even in New York.

Kamala Harris or Kristen Gillibrand. Kamala Harris AND Kristen Gillibrand????

Yes, because they lost to other centrists. It’s not like they were beat out by some hardcore lefties.

He doesn’t offer any advantages over Gillibrand, and is a softer target for attacks from the left in the primary.

Jerseyan here...as soon as any opposition starts to poke at Booker’s background, his candidacy will collapse like the most delicate soufflé.

That’s paranoid bullshit. The Clintons don’t have the power to determine who’s elected to the senate or governor’s office in any given state. There’s been no shortage of prominent Democrats in the last three decades. There just haven’t been very many who seemed to be worth a damn. Try as you might, that’s not a…

Judging from the past few months, I fear this is exactly where we are headed.

I forget who it was who said (paraphrasing) “Cory Booker was designed in a lab to be the perfect candidate to lose in 2020" but I kinda get that feeling.

I assume it will be a crowded field. But just as was the case with the Republican field of 2015-16, I expect that it will be a field crowded entirely with people who have no business being on the stage.

Every Dem nominee is hated by the left flank of the party. They always nominate a centrist.

The funny criticism of Hillary Clinton’s supposed “coronation” was the implication that the Democrats of 2015 had a super deep bench of up and comers that she kept from running. The reality is that between 2004 (when a State senator from Illinois gave a keynote address before the DNCC) and 2016, not a single Democrat…

Doubt it. He’s hated by the left flank of the party and the centrists are meh in him. His recent “go easy on Jared” also didn’t do him any favors.

Some of the concerns are valid, but the ratings as a whole are useless and serve to mislead the public.

I was laughing my ass off at some article recently that was like “we tested eighty sunscreens and only two made the cut!” and my reaction was “then how bad did you fuck up the test? how ridiculous were the standards to make the cut?”

Yeah this was my impression of them too. They’re so close to actually being useful, but instead they take that last freeway exit towards quackery.

I’ve always thought that the EWG were a bunch of fear mongers that don’t take into consideration how ingredients work in a formula. For example, in a well-formulated product, the irritant qualities of an ingredient, say SLS, can be countered by the addition of other ingredients, like allantoin. You can’t just pick out…

It’s Texas.

He’s only been elected once, so you can’t really ask how does he keep getting elected.

Cruz is just 100% pure uncut asshole; even his family despises him, so...how the hell does he keep getting elected? What platform does he run on? He can’t possibly be getting anything done since every single coworker loathes his face, so what does he hold up in his ads as proof that he’s working for his constituents?…

I too laughed out loud as “the guy who microwaves fish.” I mean seriously, fuck that guy, and Ted Cruz is without a doubt that guy. Can we please have Al Franken in the next cabinet?