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40. Davis would be a terrible choice. There is a much better TX-focused choice.

I get that a lot of people here are enamored of Davis for her courageous stand (as am I)...but her subsequent race was rather demonstrative that she's a poor campaigner and a political lightweight. She's not politically adept enough to ever win even a blue Texas...she'd be a Palin level disaster on a national ticket.

Her race against Abbott was interesting for the wrong reasons...she managed to out-sleaze Greg Abbott, something I didn't think was possible...and given every opportunity to demonstrate who she was: progressive, moderate, Texan, feminist, Obama supporter, running away from Obama, pragmatic, idealist, or otherwise...she failed to stake out a consistent identity.

She had every opportunity Democrats in Texas have been able to muster within the last 20 years, if any capable Democrat could win, that was her opportunity...and she lost. She lost badly...badly enough that people called it the death of the TX Democratic party; her political career deserves to be ended for it.

If that's the direction Clinton wants to go...Cecile Richards would be a much better choice. She's smart, she's progressive, she brings "not a politician" outsider-cred to the ticket, she's a talented activist capable of compellingly laying out a vision and experienced debating difficult and contentious issues. The religious right would hate it and it would force Trump to keep talking about an issue (abortion) that he's clearly trying to avoid and can't really stake out a consistent position on without sounding both insincere to his RW supporters and like an asshole to everybody else. At the same time, Richards has weight in TX because she's the daughter of Ann Richards and can talk about Clinton as President being part of the legacy of her mother's career-long fight to break glass ceilings.

Texans love Ann Richards...even the conservative ones.

Richards moves TX to a state we can contest...Davis probably moves it further from winnable, just like she did in her gubernatorial race.