President Elizabeth Warren?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:48am

This Would Be A Godsend To America.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:51am

I am all for anything that mixes it up. Politics, as usual, isn't getting us anywhere.

This could be a welcome change.

Updated On: 10/23/14 at 08:51 AM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:54am

I'd prefer Bernie Sanders but I would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Hillary Clinton any day.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:56am

Amen to that!

[Huss417]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:56am

I have liked her since day one. It does seem she is being groomed quite well to move on to bigger and better things in politics.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:00am

Yes, please!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:11am

Don't get me wrong, I think Clinton would be a great President. But Elizabeth Warren would be PHENOMENAL. She's the kind of person who would never back down to Wall Street or hide her views on things to protect big money. It would be an amazing thing for someone like that, the type of person the White House has never seen, to take over this country.

And not to mention, the GOP would totally shlt their pants.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:37am

I think, right now, Clinton has a virtual lock on the White House, and I don't see the DP risking that on Warren.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:39am

I think if Clinton has to debate either Warren or Sanders her lock on the White House will not be such a sure thing.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:43am

I agree.

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 10:27am

I don't trust Hillary at all and refuse to vote for her. She is just too fickle on issues that matter to me.

I am just sick of people telling me I should vote for Hillary because she's a woman and I'm a woman. (My response is 'there are better women out there'. (I love Jennifer Granholm, but she was born in Canada, even though she grew up here, she's ineligible to ever be President. I also love Warren, but unfortunately, she's unelectable-she's too liberal for most people. She'd be my top choice but I am fairly certain people from certain areas of the country think of her as an uppity New England liberal.)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:22am

I'd be most happy to vote for a Clinton-Warren ticket.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:22am

I'll vote for the Green Party candidate before I cast a vote for Hillary.

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:23am

Erik-I'd vote for Portman before Hillary. I just can't trust her. And she's had so many opportunities and I feel as though her time has passed. It's time for some new voices.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:32am

Clinton-Warren is the most likely possibility, although pairing Clinton with Cory Booker might be stronger in terms of getting out the vote.

Clinton is more likely to get the crossover votes from moderates and disaffected Republicans than Warren, who will light a fire over liberals who are disappointed in Obama. But Warren will frighten the disaffected Republicans into sticking with the GOP.

The GOP is a mess, with social conservatives hating big-business conservatives and libertarians surging into leads with a Rand Paul who is willing to turn 180 degrees away from any position he has previously held in order to get the nomination.

Rand Paul's Machiavellian endgame is to woo the "youth vote"--all the 20-somethings who came out for Obama in 2008 and are disappointed now because the news says the stock market is booming but they can't pay their college loans or get out of their barista jobs. If Rand Paul can persuade them that he is their messiah, any Democrat would be in big trouble.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:33am

Ugh Cory Booker...even more of a Wall Street lackey than Clinton.

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:39am

There are people in their 20s and 30s (cough cough) who are equally dissatisfied with the Democratic party and for whom a centrist like Portman (who works on a bipartisan platform-he has a lot of Democratic constituents) would be a welcome change.

Hillary ain't electable-too much controversy and hatred for her. The sexagenarians think she's great but I think the younger crowd doesn't like her much.

America isn't ready for a double female ticket-and Warren and Clinton aren't politically aligned. I think a female VP needs to happen first in any event. I just think Hillary is washed up and needs to let someone else in. I am not electing someone I can't believe in just because they're a woman-I've waited since I could remember for a female President. Hillary isn't who I had in mind. UGH.

(And this is coming from someone, who, as a very little girl (like 3) could go to the television and when asked identify Geraldine Ferraro ("Gewaldine Fewwawo" in my little girl voice to my mother's feminist glee!). She too wants a female president-and has begun to see that Hillary is not the right choice. (And she's in that age bracket.) Soooo...we'll see.

I think it'll be two men and maybe a female VP candidate or two.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 11:58am

I think your assessment of Hillary is myopic. She's more electable in a general election than anyone else on either side. There's very little hatred for her on the GOP side anymore--only from its radical fringe. Most of the Hillary Hate is coming from the left nowadays. But in the middle, which usually elects the president, she's seen as the adult in the room.

I wish Portman were more electrifying. I'm afraid Rand Paul is aiming for those dissatisfied 20s and 30s voters, and bizarrely, he seems to have a kind of charisma that the "kids" respond to.

The establishment of the GOP doesn't trust him, but they absolutely loathe Ted Cruz. If they see Rand Paul bringing in Obama's youth vote, they'll flock to him in an instant.

A Rand Paul vs. Hillary election would be a nail-biter.

A Rand Paul vs. Elizabeth Warren election would be fascinating. But it would mean that both parties moved during primary season: the Democrats to the left and the GOP to the libertarians.

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:04pm

Typically, I'm a centrist. But I won't vote for Hillary. And there's always the apathetic voters-the people who would rather not vote at all than vote for Hillary.

I don't think Rand Paul is going to get the nod over Portman. Portman has a lot of crossover support-something Paul does not.

I still think it's going to be 2 men and a female VP. Hillary couldn't close the deal before and time has not been kind.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:13pm

Why do you say men and female instead of male and female? Or man and woman?

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:38pm

Well, Phyllis in my post above, it is more grammatically correct because I wished to express there might only be a single candidate for VP who was a woman. However, I erred when describing the Presidential counterparts. So, the clause: "two male [Presidential] candidates and a female [Vice Presidential] candidate".

Thanks for checking the grammar. Men and women candidates don't make grammatical sense. It should be male and female as those are adjectives here.
Updated On: 10/23/14 at 12:38 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:39pm

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[sabrelady]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:41pm

Hilary has name recogniton. Yes, some of that is negative but a sh!t load of people ( who actually vote) vote for the name that's familiar.

We have a mayoral race going on in Toronto where our toxic clown of an incumbent has been sidelined for that race due to health issues.( but is running for councillor in his old riding!) His bully brother ( seen often as the puppet master) is running in his stead. He joined the race late, has the same belligerent attitude and LIES outright. Yet he was polling 2nd in the race and within 6 points of the lead. The 3rd place candidate, who might actually have been the best choice has only faint hope now as most RATIONAL voters (including myself) fee lwe mus vote for the candidate who can win in order to keep that family of schweinhunds out of office.
The election is Monday - lets see what % the name recognition a-hole gets.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 12:53pm

"Typically, I'm a centrist." UGH.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 1:00pm

Portman has a lot of crossover support

He doesn't have much support at all, actually. Crossover from where to where?