Question:
In retrospective what Democratic nominee could be the strongest contender against McCain/Palin ticket?
2008-09-18 09:00:54 UTC
Please do limit yourself only to those who actually sought nomination.
22 answers:
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2008-09-18 09:09:11 UTC
I actually liked John Edwards...Too bad he couldn't keep it in his pants...





@Lou G: Isn't it funny that Obama kept saying that the Republicans were going to bring up his race, but it's Obama and the Dems who keep doing it?
Chris I
2008-09-18 16:13:31 UTC
Obviously Obama is the strongest for president but the Democratic ticket would be stronger with Hillary on it as Vice-President...Sarah Palin is on the ticket to get female votes and the extreme conservative votes...Her and McCain don't see eye to eye and he has no intentions of her having any real input regardless of what he says to people which is good because she's not exactly someone you'd want to speak on your behalf...of course, it doesn't really matter, I can't see any Republican winning after Bush's countless screw ups and well McCain supporting 90% of them...



Chris I
Scott K
2008-09-18 16:08:32 UTC
I think Hillary Clinton would have absolutely given McCain fits. I think Bill Richardson was my favorite from those that ran. A huge problem with the Democrats is that they seem to like us to have Northeastern liberals every go-around. The successful candidates have mainly been Westerners or Southerners; I think the only exceptions to that are Bush I and Kennedy, since FDR.
chuck_junior
2008-09-18 16:07:37 UTC
Hillary.

If she were the Presidential nominee the Democrats would be walking away with this election. A Hillary/Obama ticket was the nightmare scenario for the Conservatives.

Fortunately, the Dems decided to not shoot themselves in the foot and shot themselves in the head instead by going with Obama/Biden.



This was the Dems election to take or to lose. They decided to lose it.

Hillary will be back in '12 on the "I told you dummies so" platform.
Cowboy C
2008-09-18 16:10:24 UTC
John Edwards,

OK theres a sex scandal, but if he was the dem's nominee the press would not report it until after the election,

If it were not for the election fraud the GOP committed in Ohio in 2004 Edwards would be the vice president now.

Hillary and Obama are too liberal to win a general election.
khan
2008-09-18 16:06:22 UTC
The thing is, if we hadn't had the big, furious, democratic nomination run, there would be a lot more support for Obama. Hillary took a lot of her supporters when she left, and those supporters are now leaning towards McCain, primarily due to Palin.



Obama is a prime candidate, but I wish the nomination wasn't so aggressive, because it may have cost the Democrats the election.
Lou G
2008-09-18 16:12:49 UTC
You're going to hear a lot of "Hillary", but let's be honest: she was more polarizing than Obama. Although it would have been fun to hear NOW spin why it's better to be a woman who blindly ignores her husband's philandering than it is to support a woman who didn't rely on her husband to garner political office.



No. I think the Democratic Party knows just what they're doing. They weren't going to win on the female vote, but they're banking on the black vote and the young vote to carry them into DC.



And, just to hedge their bets, they've been playing the race card; first with "a vote against Obama is a vote for racism," and now by telling us that the only reason Obama isn't sweeping the polls is because he is black.



Of course I wouldn't ask you to take my word for it. Let's have a peek at what potential VP pick Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas said yesterday:



By NIGEL DUARA

Associated Press Writer

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using "code language" to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.



"Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?" Sebelius asked with sarcasm. "(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness."
Max50
2008-09-18 16:10:15 UTC
If the Democrats would have suck it up and brought Lieberman back into the fold he would have been a great asset.



Harold Ford Jr, From TN



Would be another I like to see run.
2008-09-18 16:08:50 UTC
Hillary...if things had turned out differently I might not have left the Democratic Party...but fortunately Hillary was railroaded and I was set free of DNC group-think...
20090120!
2008-09-18 16:09:55 UTC
it is a catch 22, If democrats picked Hillary , Republicans would have picked someone else.





It would have been more interesting if Republicans picked their VP first. Then we would see if Dems would have made a political move.
Meeza Scared Of Massa Obomba
2008-09-18 16:06:40 UTC
Hill/Bayh
2008-09-18 16:08:05 UTC
Actually a Clinton/Lieberman ticket would have been pretty damn strong.
2008-09-18 16:06:08 UTC
Obama. He is leading in the polls again in case you were unaware of it.



And it only took two interviews from Palin to do it.



Palin McBush speaks and the stock markets crumble and fall.
2008-09-18 16:05:11 UTC
I think Hillary would have won by a big margin against McCain.
Fossil
2008-09-18 16:05:13 UTC
Probably Biden leading the ticket with Obama as underling would work better.
2008-09-18 16:07:32 UTC
Ted Kennedy........while in the hospital with a brain tumor...........would have been better than McCain or Palin.
2008-09-18 16:09:59 UTC
It doesn't matter.....anyone with any truth would beat them. Truth will always beat lies.
Michelle S
2008-09-18 16:03:43 UTC
Anyone could be a stronger candidate than Obama, except Pelosi
Joy
2008-09-18 16:04:22 UTC
Hillary!!!!
Linda C
2008-09-18 16:05:31 UTC
Obama is doing just fine but thank you for asking.
2008-09-18 16:04:08 UTC
McCain/Palin will die out by themselves. No worries
mason
2008-09-18 16:04:47 UTC
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