Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:14 PM Author: Vibrant lay
Tom Wolf. From what I can tell, he's been utterly ineffectual as a governor, but people don't understand or vote on shit like that -- they vote based on their general sense of the guy and his personality.
Wolf:
(1) Is Governor of a crucial swing state, which he won by 10% in the GOP year of 2014 and will crush in 2018. Very likely would take Pennsylvania out of play;
(2) Has rural appeal, coming from legit Are Country in York, PA, where he still lives in the house where he grew up;
(3) Boring protestant white dude who won't alienate moderates based on identity politics shit;
(4) Very smart dude who is intellectually ready from primetime, with an MIT Ph.D. (in politttical science, but proles will just hear "MIT PhD");
(5) Is a soft-spoken intellectual type (albeit without the big city snobbishness) that could contrast well with Trump for voters following the "vote for the opposite of the last guy" theory of voting;
(6) has business experience, having come to the rescue of what had been his family business (not 100% clear on this, but I think his parents sold it to private equity and then he bought it back to save it when it was about to go bankrupt) -- and the family business is a good wholesome domestic manufacturer of cabinets and shit like that;
(7) in what will be a very compelling story line you will hear 24/7, and which will be used to contrast him with Trump, he famously instituted profit sharing for blue collar workers at his company, sharing 20-30% of profits with employees;
(8) refuses chauffeur and drives stick-shift jeep everywhere; and
(9) married to same woman for 42 years and counting.
Probably can't get through the primary, although he was in the peace corps and has a daughter with a nose ring, so maybe he'll have a little shitlib appeal in a year where they are desperate to win and there is at least some thought to trying to win back the white working class.
Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:17 PM Author: Vibrant lay
You never know what's gonna play. People would have told you Bernie had no charisma. His soft-spoken self-deprecating personality could be endearing and play well if people are looking for a contrast to the parts of Trump they don't like.
Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:21 PM Author: Irradiated rusted sanctuary
doesn't sound that scary; he'd probably be a moderate as president. the scariest would be someone like gillibrand, who would turn up the social engineering stuff while cucking to corporate interests and probably even the neocons. booker strikes me as the same.
Date: October 14th, 2018 2:40 PM Author: Diverse boistinker
CR OP. Best Dem candidate will be someone like Wolf or Kander who can make the case against Trump as a city slicker and a congenital liar whose entire life story makes a mockery of mainstream values of the heartland. Whether the Dem nom is someone like this or not will depend on how well things are going for Trump in late 2019/early 2020. If he’s survived impeachment and looks to be ahead or at least not way behind any of the front runners then an outsider candidate with the best case for electability in the general starts to become pretty realistic. But if it looks like one or more of the front runners will win by 10 in January 2020 then it will be that person/those people. The thing about Dems is that they are always scared of doing the unpopular thing because they’ve lived their whole lives as Melvins.