To: GaryL
Democratic losses of governorships is harming them significantly in terms of developing leaders. Governors (including now Howard Dean) have become the candidates of choice, and even Howard Dean's ascendancy is reflective of that.
Back in 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats had several governors to pick from as presidential candidates. Clinton, Cuomo, Dukakis. Today who do they have? Their top state governors now are Jennifer Granholm in Michigan (who is constitutionally ineligible to run for President), Bill Richardson in NM, and Rod Blagojevich in Illinois.
25 posted on
11/12/2003 7:06:57 AM PST by
tellw
To: tellw
Their top state governors now are Jennifer Granholm in Michigan (who is constitutionally ineligible to run for President), Bill Richardson in NM, and Rod Blagojevich in Illinois. Some have included Tom Vilsack (Iowa) and Ed Rendell (Pennsylvania) in the group of potential national candidates the Dems could draw from.
To: tellw
As a Michigander, I can tell you that the poll numbers for "Reparations" Granholm have fallen precipitously in the past few months. Up to this point, her strategy has been to not do anything much at all, so her popularity figures were unrealistically high. Lately, though, she's been forced to show her true colors, what with her veto of the Republican-sponsored partial-birth abortion ban bill (having run as a "Catholic"), her cowardly refusal to reign in the Detroit Federation of Teachers attempts to block the $200 million Thompson charter school program that was scotched (at a time when state budget shortfalls are forcing major cuts in school spending), her puerile "cool cities" initiative (as a ham-handed way to decrease the flight of manufacturing businesses from union-driven Michigan), and the release of the results of the on-going FBI investigation into her connections with the corrupt Wayne County Democrat political machine (with its criminality and union thuggery). After all, she only won with a 3% margin over the Republican candidate last time, which means she was put over the top by the female "sucker mom" vote.
To: tellw
Back in 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats had several governors to pick from as presidential candidates. Clinton, Cuomo, Dukakis. Today who do they have? Their top state governors now are Jennifer Granholm in Michigan (who is constitutionally ineligible to run for President), Bill Richardson in NM, and Rod Blagojevich in Illinois. Ed Rendell and Bill Richardson plus Janet Napolitano are prez vp frontrunners for 2008 (assuming no Hill). And Mark Warner. Blago sees himself running for prez, it's true . . .
47 posted on
11/12/2003 7:55:44 AM PST by
JohnnyZ
(Red Sox in 2004)
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