The candidate that can re-assemble the Obama coalition should be the nominee [View all]

[5starlib]

I'm talking about progressives, the young, the old, suburbanites, urban dwellers, Latinos, and African-Americans. In Obama, we had a nominee that won freaking Indiana in 2008.

Yes, we need enthusiasm, but we need enthusiasm in the right places. IIRC, Hillary had plenty of enthusiasm too, which is why she beat Trump in the popular vote. But the problem with Hillary is that didn't have enthusiasm among African-Americans and Latinos (particularly in Florida). Hillary had lines of voters in LA and NYC which did absolutely nothing. Because of the lack of black voters in the Midwest, we lost the EC and lost potential senate pickups like Toomey and Johnson.

Elizabeth Warren has that enthusiasm, but once again, are we setting up a similar situation where we're not getting voters in the right states? I don't see anything from Warren that would make older black voters sit in line for hours to vote in Detroit, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Tampa, or Gary, Indiana like they did for Obama. And for Warren, talking about scrapping Obamacare is not helping her with most black voters either as it's his main legacy achievement.

This is the key to beating to Trump. We need to get voters excited in the right places to win.

Is Biden the one? Well I think so due to his deep and long connections with black people, but he'll need an African American VP. If not, then maybe not. Are there other candidates? Maybe Harris could be the closest one.