I guess this is her way of saying "I'm just not that into you" to progressives like myself.

She's already a candidate whose main base of appeal is hardcore Democratic partisans and she doubled down on that by picking someone whose only appeal is to hardcore Democratic partisans. She clearly things doubling down on more of the same is going to generate the kind of excitement she needs.

She'll get my anti-Trump vote but not a penny (not that she needs it, which is probably why she picked Kaine) and not a single lift of the finger or word out of my mouth trying to sell people on her. If the chosen standard bearer of the Democratic party has decided this is the direction she wants to keep the party going down then that's her decision and the decision of the majority of people who voted for her. But I don't have to like it and I don't have to support it.

Tim Kaine, they say, will help Hillary win Virginia and perhaps North Carolina. He speaks Spanish, which they say will be helpful to win Florida. So,

Being from VA might hurt him in NC. Really.

He probably won't actually hurt the ticket in NC, but he won't help it either. He helped cost us in 2010; the DNC made some bad moves in NC anointing its preferred and losing candidates.

I could easily be wrong. But Kaine doesn't naturally connect with NC. He is not Southern, doesn't really interact in a familiar way. He will probably be ok here, just not great.

His Spanish skills might help him more here. There is now a significant Hispanic community in NC, much of it from Central America.