Posted on 04/20/2025 10:03:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sunday is a “clearing the spindle” day, and one of the things on my spindle has been Nate Silver’s prediction last week that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, is currently the most likely person to be the Democrat party’s 2028 presidential candidate. Frankly, I think he’s right. She’s telegenic, has name recognition, and manages to make the same politics that killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century seem user-friendly. She’s also Bernie Sanders’ anointed heir, and he missed the nomination in 2016 and 2020 only because the Democrat party panicked.
Last week, Nate Silver, while acknowledging that it’s early days yet, said he still thinks that it’s possible to make predictions about the probable 2028 Democrat nominee based on the available information. He and his show co-host concluded that AOC is the most likely person:
Polling guru Nate Silver on Thursday even predicted Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, will be the next Democratic nominee for the White House.
“I thought I was gonna surprise everyone by taking AOC first,” Silver tweeted, referring to the fact that his colleague Galen Druke also placed Ocasio-Cortez on top of his own early 2028 list. “That was going to be my … first pick,” he added.
Silver and Druke agreed Ocasio-Cortez has the charisma and popularity to make a huge splash in the still-embryonic Democratic White House race, citing her impressive polling and fundraising numbers.
“There’s a lot of points in her favor at this very moment,” Druke said on the Silver Bulletin Substack podcast. “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has broad appeal across the Democratic Party.”
I think they’re right. AOC really does have a huge appeal to the Democrat base: She’s a very attractive, self-identified female (and biologically female, too) who is nominally Hispanic (although she was just Sandy from the suburbs)
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Waiting for some memes about it...
IF this prediction is true, then there will be one more Presidential election where, once again, I will vote against a candidate. (I haven’t voted for a candidate wholeheartedly for two decades. It’s getting old.)
America seems to be drifting back towards religion. Hopefully it continues. God help us if Sandy Cortez and her squawd members get elected to the presidency.
All kind of things can happen. A person can stroke out.
A person can be hit by a bus. A person can choke to death
on prime rib. A person can fall out a window.
Four years is a long long time in politics.
No way in hell, as that is where we will be if that happens.
Indeed.
What’s her slogan? “From bar maid to president”. Might as well have Fran Drescher running for president.
Although she is popular among the far left, given that Democrats have the super delegates in the nomination process and the big money donors that blew a billion dollars on Kamala, I am not sure AOC could convince the party leaders and the big money donors to support her.
She makes me think of rolled oats.
It is very possible. The stupidity of the American voter cannot be underestimated. The voters gave us Bill Clinton twice. barrack obama two times. And the Democrat Party aided and abetted by the Republican Party gave us Joe Biden. So, yes, AOC can be in the White House courtesy of the American voting public. As previously mentioned, the stupidity of the American voting public cannot be underestimated.
Death before such a dishonor. At any cost
G-d forbid. We will have fallen utterly into the abyss if she is the best we can do for a presidential candidate.
No way Jose.
Has not a thing to do with the American voter. It has to do with election fraud! Stop with the gaslighting nonsense!
Presidential candidate AOC is a real possibility, but President AOC is not.
this has been discussed as a risk since she was elected. entirely possible.
Is she a natural Born citizen?
not sure, but it seems pretty clear that doesn’t actually matter. obama, kamala, and even arguably mccain seem to have put that little rule to rest.
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