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43. Chris van Hollen

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 10:27 PM

Nov 2014

He's got the temperament, he's had enough TV face time already to be an effective "speaker" (as in one who will be listened to, rather than the specific duties of the office of Speaker) nationally, he's very good at articulating positions.

My own guy, Jim Cooper, certainly has the temperament, but I don't really think that he has the "wrangling ability" to lasso votes that is really needed. If he did, he probably would have already at lest been a Whip by now. He's also one of the remaining "blue dogs," which is certainly less than ideal.

Someone above also said Keith Ellison. I would say that pretty much all of the first paragraph applies to him as well.

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