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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 07:48 PM Oct 2013

16 Senate Women Say 'Run, Hillary, Run' in 2016

With President Barack Obama’s approval ratings near a new low this week, the Democratic water-cooler talk is focusing especially early on hopes for 2016 — with the bulk of today’s attention on news that all 16 of the Senate’s Democratic women have written to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to run.

The unanimity of the group means as many as three potential aspirants for the nomination would defer to the former secretary of State, adding to the sense of inevitability about her candidacy and to the expectation that her bid would essentially clear the Democratic field.

Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has been widely touted on the left as a worthy liberal alternative to Clinton, and she hasn’t explicitly ruled out such a candidacy. But the freshman senator’s signing of the letter appears to amount to such a demurral. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota have both publicly described themselves as Clinton supporters and have signaled they would shelve their White House aspirations if she ran next time. Their signatures lock those promises in place.

Another newsworthy signature comes from the dean of the female senators, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, because it means she’s not waiting for her state’s governor, Martin O’Malley, to formalize his presidential intentions before declaring her preference for someone else.

The letter was orchestrated by Barbara Boxer of California in early spring, only months after Obama’s second term began and Clinton left her Cabinet seat. It came just as the Ready for Hillary super PAC was being created by aides to her 2008 campaign in an effort to centralize the recruiting efforts. Clinton herself has said she won’t announce her intentions before next year.

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16 Senate Women Say 'Run, Hillary, Run' in 2016 (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2013 OP
Gillibrand and Klobuchar have WH aspirations? polichick Oct 2013 #1
I don't understand why the democratic party insist on picking a woman to run for President bigdarryl Oct 2013 #2
The country is damned well ready for a woman president Whisp Oct 2013 #3
I don't have a problem Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2013 #4

polichick

(37,152 posts)
1. Gillibrand and Klobuchar have WH aspirations?
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 08:28 PM
Oct 2013

"Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota have both publicly described themselves as Clinton supporters and have signaled they would shelve their White House aspirations if she ran next time."

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
2. I don't understand why the democratic party insist on picking a woman to run for President
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 09:20 PM
Oct 2013

I'm not so sure the country is ready for that yet

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
3. The country is damned well ready for a woman president
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 09:35 PM
Oct 2013

who has the right stuff. And it ain't Hillary.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
5. I don't have a problem
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 02:46 PM
Nov 2013

with a female president, but my problem personally is having someone pushed forward by the media as the "inevitable" candidate, despite her saying repeatedly that she won't run again. We still have Tuesday's elections to worry about first.

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