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In reply to the discussion: WashPo: Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Otherwise if the VP is a "compromise" candidate who's more aligned with the corporatists, even if Bernie gets elected, I think he will be as big an assassination target as we've had in a long time, since there will be a lot of money out there that will find that as a solution to get a corporatist back in charge then.
Someone like Merkley here on the west coast or another progressive in a different area might be better, but I don't think Warren would suffer that much from geographic differences.
Bernie has more of a national following than someone like O'Malley who might be better known by his direct constituents, by having been on Thom Hartmann's show for the last 8-9 years on a weekly basis. Though not everyone watches Hartmann like they might watch corporate media news, there's enough of an audience that I think it puts a nucleus of support in just about every city in the country for geographic coverage than just about anyone else besides Hillary who has already great name recognition from her time in the White House.