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Originally posted by RatedG²
He's been more than an effective attack dog when he needs to be. It's not super important for that to be the case but he more than holds his own when combating Trump.
And Virginia is far from a lock. Besides the fact it has only voted for a democrat twice since 1964, the key to winning it is driving up the Obama coalition voters who highly approve of him. If she can't do that she won't Virginia because it's still a conservative state, it now has more pockets of democrats though.
Out of all of the battlegrounds the only lock she has is Iowa and Colorado. The others could potentially go either way (but she has an upper hand in all of them)
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Even his advisors say he's uncomfortable being an attack dog. That's historically the most important aspect of the VP candidate, as it allows the person at the top of the ticket to avoid going negative more than they absolutely need to. You need a VP candidate who is 100% effective at attacking Trump, like Warren has been already. She has been fighting against Wall Street types her entire career, there's no one better suited at effectively attacking someone like Trump than she is.
And I don't know why anyone would be hoping for Kaine to be the VP when he's so incredibly uninspiring, and really does nothing for the ticket. Virginia appears to be a battleground, but in all actuality, it isn't. It may have only started going consistently blue in '08, but that's also the case for Colorado, which you call a lock for Hillary, so you can't have it both ways. I know you have some weird vendetta against Warren, it seems you're jumping through hoops to justify anyone else to be her VP. She doesn't need Kaine to help her win Virginia. Any political analyst will tell you that picking a VP to help deliver their home state, doesn't actually work most of the time, and that there are much more important reasons to pick someone. All you have to do is look at how Virginia's demographics have changed, their high percentage of minorities, and their high percentage of well educated people (who oppose Trump at a very high rate) to know that as long as turnout is high enough, Virginia is absolutely a lock for Hillary. She has/will have the Obama coalition, as she has through the primary season. And she'll win women and highly educated people at higher rates than Obama did because of their difference in opponents (Romney as opposed to Trump).
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Originally posted by King Maxx
That's not quite the same. People will blame him, sure. They blame him for Orlando.  But EU would be to blame. If we go down, every country goes down and for once it wasn't our fault.
But Hillary has a real opportunity, even if it doesn't affect us, to paint him as destructive. Immigration reform scared the UK. They gave into hate and voted out of the EU. Now their economy is being destroyed. All Hillary has to do is show that that is exactly Trump's message. It'll be effect in a lot of areas. Of course his supporters don't care, but Independents will.
And this is only the beginning. Trump just said this was a good move for them so let's see what else he says. He's already losing support from every demographic (even white men) in recent polls. |
I completely agree, she will have a golden opportunity with how all of this has transpired.
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