(Jay) Nixon may be casting a glance at the future [View all]
"Excepting Obama, you have to go to LBJ to find a Democratic president who didn't come from a Southern statehouse, and he had the advantage of being vice president.
If Nixon wins handily in November, as now seems likely, he would have to be on everybody's short list in 2016. Although he has been in politics seemingly forever, he will be only 60. More importantly, he will be a center-right Southern governor with a history of red state success. Remember, he got 58 percent of the vote four years ago, when Obama couldn't carry Missouri. He might well duplicate that this year.
Who would be his opposition for the nomination? No Democrat is challenging Obama this year, and the two main challengers from four years ago — Hillary Clinton and John Edwards — are unlikely and impossible. Clinton will be 69 by November 2016, and that is getting old for somebody running for a first term.
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