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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I feel like this part of your post sits in direct opposition to the other part of your post.
I'm not sure any of your opinions are supportable other than based on what you think. And to be fair, neither are mine. But in a close race, choosing:
1. someone black might help bring in more black voters
2. a woman might bring out more women voters
3. Bernie might bring out the Bernie bros
4. someone from Ohio might win you Ohio
5. a progressive, while you've already shored up the less progressive wing of the party, might maximize your support.
But I don't have the same expertise when it comes to low information-voters that you have.
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It's a fair point. On the Democratic side, to be successful a candidate has to mobilize a coalition and get different groups excited. Picking a VP candidate could be part of doing this, but it doesn't have to be. For example, I don't think that Obama won anybody's vote with Biden (and was not trying to -- I think he picked Biden as someone he wanted to work with in the White House), but I do think he did a good job of exciting and unifying different parts of the Democratic Party. I think Tim Kaine would have been a fine VP and didn't turn anyone off, but Hillary was not good at unifying the party and Kaine didn't help her. A successful candidate needs to tell different groups what they want to hear.
