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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBTRTN: Hey, Joe Biden... Here's How To Turn Your V.P. Dilemma Into a Big Win
Born To Run The Numbers offers a suggestion about how Joe Biden can navigate his VP selection process and simultaneously inject much needed energy into his stealth campaign:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/05/btrtn-hey-joe-biden-heres-how-to-turn.html
Excerpts: "Joe Bidens stealth campaign for President is a bit like the Loch Ness Monster: it rarely appears, is hardly ever captured on film, and when it does rise above the surface, it looks genial and unthreatening
nothing monstrous at all. Sure, we love Joe Biden, and we will work, donate, and do everything in our power to help him defeat the big stupid orange. But true confessions as we watch him at the helm of his 'run silent, run deep' campaign, we may be feeling a whiff of Biden remorse... Cmon, Joe! Get it together! We need a big dose of Presidential gravitas, and we want it now...
"How about showing us some in how you solve your V.P. selection dilemma, which is slowly beginning to boil as rumors are rampant, one-time favorites recede, and long-shots emerge...
"There are a number of other elected officials on the list, but we are going to cut to the chase: nobody is perfect. Nobody checks all the boxes. No matter who Biden picks, the story is going to be about the constituency that was ignored. Pick Harris, and the progressives will feel ignored yet again. Pick Warren, and the African American community could feel that their vital importance to the Democratic party is being undervalued. Pick someone who is not embraced by either constituency, and the concern about Democratic voter turn out reaches Def Con One.
"The answer? Hows this, Joe: pick everybody. Huh? Joe, its the first rule of debating: if you dont have a good answer to the question, change the question..."
blm
(113,100 posts)I know many progressives who would be fine with Harris and many AA voters whose primary vote went to Warren and would support her as VP.
Dont mind the name your cabinet approach, but, this column went unnecessarily overboard on the stereotyping.
Thought maybe my double ugh reaction was due to my funk.
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)Will vote for Trump based solely upon Biden't pick for VP.