Claire McCaskill: POTUS/Veep material? [View all]

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N.B.: THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-HILLARY CLINTON POST. I'm as fine with HRC as I've ever been with any potential candidate at 26 months from Election Day. I also like Joe Biden, except for his 25 year old War on Some Drugs policy. (I haven't heard him shift.) And while I'd love Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, I don't get married to a candidate this early. That way lies Dean heartbreak.

Something Rachel Maddow said either last night or night before caught my attention: that if McCaskill was involved in the negotiations to get the Kansas Senate Dem candidate to drop out, that suggests she's playing a bigger game.

I know relatively little about her, but what I have seen, I've found more than promising. She carries well in Missouri, which is a tough row for a woman Democrat to hoe, and that tells me that she has broad enough appeal. I've heard her be tough on the budget in the right places (cutting MIC, not social services, IIRC), strong on equality and civil rights and VA issues. She seems to be incredibly good at the political strategy side of election work. And on a charisma level, I like her sense of humor and bluntness.

What am I missing? Citations appreciated.