President AOC? Yes, it’s a real possibility.

American Thinker ^ | 04/20/2025 | Andrea Widburg

[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)

[sergeantdave]

Give us this day a new level of clickbait pearl clutching from Andrea Widburg.

[SeekAndFind]

If 75 million Americans will vote for Kamala “heels up” Harris, at least that many who will vote for AOC isn’t far fetched.

[subterfuge]

Someone should ask Sandy Cortez if she auditioned to run for congress and what were her qualifications? Oh, and who was it that set up the audition?

[daniel1212]

Unless she finally marries her boyfriend with whom she has lived with for years, and has been engaged to for 2 years and counting, then safe to say that as President she would be Fornicator in Chief.

Of course, few conservatives are likely to call her out on this, since they support fornication as a fundamental right. Wrong

[American Infidel]

It’s a lot easier to win a small congressional district as a moronic radical than it is to win a statewide or national election. Yes, obama was a radical, but he at least had the veneer of intelligence and some big money behind him. Sandy cortez is not yet ready for prime time. If she can primary chuck schumer, perhaps the big money players will take notice, but she is really just a punchline at this point.