BESHEAR!!!! There's a reason Kentucky Progressives are Screaming his Name

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61. Veepstakes calculus rarely points to a clear "best"

. . . I thought Roy Cooper would be a good choice. Since he is term limited, it's not a case where an incumbent's office would be at risk if vacated. As chair of the governor's association he advocated less trump and more kitchen table -- an approach I applaud, and I think helped in the midterms. (I think endlessly demonizing Trump does more to unnecessarily alienate people who are turning to him for all sorts of reasons than change minds about him. It's all been said, and said, and said...) Anyway, Roy Cooper seems to have a reputation for successfully reaching across divides on those kitchen table issues -- a skill that could do us some good. Perhaps not as much good as Kelly's strengths on border security and gun control, but as a popular governor, having him on the ticket could put N. Carolina in play.

Who knows. She may end up picking someone for reasons that aren't so calculated -- someone she just "clicks" with.

We always get very caught up in VP selection. Fun for us and the analysts, but sometimes I think the VP pick doesn't actually change the dynamics of a race as much as we might expect.