Brown has cast his lot with Clinton but he is a true progressive populist in the House and then the Senate.

Castro is more in the line of shiny happy centrist.

I think he would be good. Castro jumped on the "distort Bernie's record concerning immigration issues" bandwagon. I think those smears and lies and distortions--some of them even coming from Huerta who is one of my heroes--were pretty effective. They almost certainly cost Sanders Nevada, where the Clinton campaign went full on butt ugly to stop Bernie's momentum after New Hampshire.

I'd rather she not pick brown or Warren or some otehr progressive Senator...but she ought not to pick someone who participated in her smears against Sanders either.

But it probably doesn't matter who she picks ultimately. She'd be the candidate.

In the even that the VP had to assume the presidency, I would certainly prefer Brown to Castro.

It's the opposite of the "hey, look at me" attitude.

And his plain spokenness. He's the real deal.

That's the deal-breaker argument against Brown: Kasich will, obviously, appoint a Republican.

In 2012, the Kochs spent a huge amount of money to elect an unqualified candidate named Josh...blah and lost! However, Kasich the terrible would get to appoint a Senator. We would be trying to take back the seat in a non-presidential year too.

on educating our disinterested voters. With all the excitement from BS huge rallies, how much political enlightening has taken place? Hillary speaks about this to all her town hall attendees and at all her rallies.

We have not done a good job since Howard Dean was DNC chair.

I'd rather not raid the Senate for the VP slot. We'll need every single vote there for judicial appointments.

I am sure she will make a good choice.

But an R governor would replace him. I'd rather him stay in the Senate.

One less progressive in the senate to muck up her Third Way agenda.

Kasich would appoint a Republican in his spot.

Any senator would have to be from a Democratic state to ensure a Democratic successor. And you know if it's Elizabeth Warren that old Scott Brown would run for that seat again in MA.

Her safe choice would be to put Joe Biden on the ticket to remain VP under a new administration, keeping all other Dem officeholders in place.

Biden is a nice guy, but sends a message that reinforces Trump's main message = Democrats want 8 more years of what you are already sick of.

The only data point you need to assess Biden is the rights track vs. wrong track polling. We lose by HUGE margins on the current track.

she might as well have Joe, too. But she'll pick Tim Kaine. It's her only logical choice to pick up Virginia, and she'll need Virginia.

seems personable.

be my pick.

But I doubt I'd be unhappy with any choice she makes...I just hope she leaves the senate alone

will be a close fight.

John Hickenlooper shares many of Sherrod Brown's values and is also from a swing state (governor of Colorado) and would help in the fight to take back the Senate and his replacement would not count against us in the fight to take back the Senate.

It's very unfortunate that Ohio has a Republican governor.

She picks Castro and I'm fucking done with her. Period. She'll get my "lesser of two evils" vote in November but that's where my support ends.

If Ohio had a Democratic Governor and there was some assurance we would not lose a seat, I would agree that he would be a really good VP pick.