Just one note to all those going, but, but if you do not vote for the nominee...

[nadinbrzezinski]

folks, the Primaries are at least six months from now. We do not know who is running YET. We have a slew of POSSIBLE candidates

Hillary Clinton. ...
Joe Biden. ...
Andrew Cuomo. ...
Beau Biden. ...
Martin O'Malley. ...
Deval Patrick. ...
Kirsten Gillibrand. ...
Cory Booker.

Mind you, NONE of them has declared, And this list is all but complete.

I have been covering races since 2010. I know that primaries are exciting, and that they are always surprising. So really, I am not advocating for any of these candidates. I know a few of them by name. I know a couple by policy ( and don't particularly care for them), but serious, the process has not even started.

If you want to advocate for one of the people on this list, by all means. But threatening people or talking of inevitable candidates is a poison to whatever remains of democracy.

[hrmjustin]

1. Oh please God not Andrew Cuomo!

I like Sherrod Brown of OH.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I am just giving you a list of possible candidates

my informed opinion, I do not like Cuomo, and I think his chances are not very good, but that is at this point... I will give the process a chance. (And he is just a possible, bandied about, who has yet to declare)

[hrmjustin]

4. I know my friend I just can not stand him.

If I knew he was going to govern like this I would have not voted for him.

[Chan790]

12. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat we can all agree to loathe?

See, something good can come out of the dialogue.

[hrmjustin]

13. lol I guess so.

[herding cats]

2. I'm just ignoring all the blather.

It's a long way off and once it gets here we'll have plenty of time to rip each other to shreds in "The Great DU Primary War of 2016."

Until then I'm busy this year with 2014, which isn't shaping up all too great in case anyone is interested.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I know, but people forget that the city council

And board of education serves as a training ground, and is essential.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Six or eighteen months from now?

The Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries traditionally kicked things off, and are tentatively scheduled for January, 2016. Is there a primary scheduled in 2015 I don't know about ?

[zappaman]

7. Maybe the poster is talking about a country other than the US?

[Bluenorthwest]

14. 6 months is correct. For the 2008 Democratic Primary cycle, the 8 major candidates all announced

in the three months between the November 2006 midterm and December 2007. This is June. 6 months from now is the dank heart of the roll out season. In the US.
How can you not know that?

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. OMG!

I slept well last night, but did I sleep for an entire year and miss the rest of 2014 and the first half of 2015?

[maddezmom]

9. Crap and I missed

My 50 birthday trip.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Well, that stinks!

You slept through a year, too?

[el_bryanto]

10. People are running well before New Hampshire and Iowa

At least the last few elections they have. They had major debates ahead of those caucauses.

Bryant

[Brother Buzz]

15. To Hell with stalking horses and clown cars

In the three most recent presidential elections in which there was no incumbent on the ballot, the six candidates who won their party's nomination and ran in the general election launched their campaigns an average of 526 days before the election took place.

That's about one year, five months and 10 days before the presidential election took place.

If the candidates expected to seek the presidential nomination for 2016 follow that pattern, they will begin announcing campaigns around June 1, 2015. In fuzzy numbers, that's a year from now and six months before Iowa and New Hampshire.