Vice President Sherrod Brown? (OH)

[OhioChick]

Posted by PD staff February 29, 2008 14:22PM
Categories: Congress, Obama
Blogger Chris Bowers at OpenLeft.com has put Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown at the top of the Web site's short list of potential vice presidential candidates.

Brown meets OpenLeft's criteria that Obama needs to pick a vice-president that reinforces his strengths and who has:

• Opposed the Iraq war from the start.

• Has not spent a long-time in the Senate.

• Did not endorse one of Obama's opponents in the primary.

OpenLeft says only three senators meet this criteria: Brown, Maryland's Ben Cardin and Virginia's Jim Webb ( he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy) .


The list of potential veep running mates who are governors is longer, the blogger said, mainly because their record on Iraq is pretty much absent. They are the governors of Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Main, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Still OpenLeft says :

Brown works well as a reinforcing pick, as suiting the needs of the ticket in the 2008 election, and as a successor who can build the progressive movement in the decade to come.
Hopefully, his name will start to pop up some more once this discussion really gets underway in a couple of weeks.


OpenLeft says it is a news, analysis and action website dedicated toward building a progressive governing majority in America. The three founding partners are Chris Bowers, Mike Lux, and Matt Stoller.


http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/02/vice_president_brown.html

[David Dunham]

1. Brown's approval rating in OH is MUCH lower than Strickland's

[thunder rising]

2. Brown seems to have forgotten what Obama did for him in '06

Barack Obama Campaigns for Brown
http://www.sherrodbrown.com/road/stories/890/

You would think that a little loyalty would have Sherrod endorsing Obama before the primary, but that's not the case.

[liberalnurse]

3. Never will that happen

because Sherrod Brown is a Hillary Clinton supporter.

[OhioChick]

4. The Last That I Heard....

Sherrod said he wasn't endorsing anyone.

[liberalnurse]

5. He did not announce it.

we just know it.

[OhioChick]

6. ......

"Brown confirmed that he will not make an endorsement before the March 4th primary, saying that "it's for the people to decide."

http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/sherrod-brown-has-advice-obama-and-clinton

[liberalnurse]

7. fine.............

I don't really care, I was just being nice and telling the real story.

[Dems Will Win]

8. a real supporter would have endorsed her. I do think Brown will be the VP

He's a populist on economics and will give the ticket OHIO! Plus Strickland appoints his replacement!

[LordJFT]

9. Don't you know? Clintonites are psychic!

[OhioChick]

10. I Sort of Assumed That. n/t