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58. I like Kamala Harris, but I don't know that she could win the governorship.

She may be the state's Attorney General, but that doesn't quite make up for the fact that she has absolutely no local, county, state, or federal lawmaking experience. She's never so much as sat on a city council or local school board seat.

There's a big difference between enforcing the law, and actually being responsible for making it. If she were to run for governor, she would be blasted nonstop over the fact that she has no real experience, either in the public or private sectors. I've heard her name come up among Democrats as a potential post-Brown contender too, and I've always heard her limited experience brought up as a major pitfall.

Lots of people on the left also have reservations about putting a "law and order" criminal prosecutor in charge of the state, with all of the potential implications that go along with that. I know that Harris tends to be a bit of a reformer when it comes to crime, but in a state where a disparate percentage of minorities end up in prison because of our punitive legal structure, it might prove difficult to convince those same minorities to support a gubernatorial candidate who spent the past decade trying to lock even more people away.

She's great in her current job, but I don't see her becoming governor anytime soon.