how would Jane Harman have fared had she won the governorship?

[freepcrusher]

What I mean is that she tried running for governor in 1998 but lost to Gray Davis (which shows we don't have the brightest primary voters). I always thought she had the tools to have executive success as governor. On fiscal issues, she isn't that liberal, so she possibly could have helped lure a lot of businesses, especially the creative class jobs, to California. She doesn't give you the whole populist bull---- that some other democrats give you. I think that had she won the governorship in 1998, she would have been a good presidential candidate in 04 or 08. It would be interesting to not only have the first female presidential candidate, but the first jewish presidential candidate. Does anyone think she would have been a good governor and possibly an eventual president?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Gray Davis was supposed to be Presidential material, so I'm not sure that she would have done better. Maybe we'd be having a thread about how great Gray Davis could have been if primary voters had just chosen him.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Gray Davis was supposed to be Presidential material, so I'm not sure that she would have done better. Maybe we'd be having a thread about how great Gray Davis could have been if primary voters had just chosen him.

Every governor of California winds up being mentioned as -- or becoming -- a candidate for president.

[King]

Gray Davis was supposed to be Presidential material, so I'm not sure that she would have done better. Maybe we'd be having a thread about how great Gray Davis could have been if primary voters had just chosen him.

Every governor of California winds up being mentioned as -- or becoming -- a candidate for president.

And yet there are just as many Presidents who've lost an election for Governor of California (Nixon) as former Governors (Reagan).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Gray Davis was supposed to be Presidential material, so I'm not sure that she would have done better. Maybe we'd be having a thread about how great Gray Davis could have been if primary voters had just chosen him.

Every governor of California winds up being mentioned as -- or becoming -- a candidate for president.

And yet there are just as many Presidents who've lost an election for Governor of California (Nixon) as former Governors (Reagan).

And Jerry Brown tried to get the nomination 3 times, while the first student at Stanford was not a governor.

[Napoleon]

Lieberman/Harman 2004? Scary stuff.

[King]

Lieberman/Harman 2004? Scary stuff.

I, of course, would have voted for the more Progressive option (Bush/Cheney).