If Hillary is the Democrat nominee, who might her VP be? Does it really matter?

[eric82oslo]

Possible nominees
- Mark Warner
- Martin Heinrich
- Sherrod Brown
- Julian Castro
- Steve Beshear
- Martin O'Malley
- Tim Kaine

All bring something different to the table but does it really matter?

What about her stealing Charlie Christ's small business-owning (language school), fluently Spanish speaking Miami resident Lieutenant Governor candidate, Annette Taddeo-Goldstein, in case he were to lose the Governor election this fall?

Would come in handy in the crucial battleground state of Florida, as well as in other crucial battleground states with a high latino population including Colorado (!), Nevada and Arizona.

   

From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yGHgOpA9EQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPiKVpS8v3I (from 1 minutes on)

Perhaps not? But it would certainly be a very bold, daring and interesting choice. Not just because she's a woman, or having started a small business herself, but also because she can potentially reach the millions of currently non-voting latino population (especially in states like Arizona and Texas where hardly any latino vote) due to her, as a teacher in Spanish speaks Spanish fluently herself, unlike Julian Castro. There's a huge difference between knowing a little bit of Spanish, like Tim Kaine (who has an awful accent on top of that) to having a natural relationship with the language like Annette. Tim would never be able to convince millions and millions of non-voting latinos to turn out to the polls. Annette possibly would, although there are never any guarantees, as this is, after all, completely unchartered territory.

Would she be "un problema grande", in her own words, for the Republican ticket?

If she were to win the LG job, she might turn out even more attractive though. I just thought it would be a little bit crude to steal her away from Christ lol.

[eric82oslo]

Third -- the surname. It will be terribly unpopular in Florida even if he is no relation to someone  infamous to many Floridians.  If he must spend much time distinguishing himself from Fidel, then the adage "if you are explaining you are losing" applies.  

Or all PR is good PR lol.

I don't see how something completely irrelevant like that could be a net negative. People, and particularily active voters, are much smarter than that.

[eric82oslo]

I'd love it if Hillary Clinton picked someone who doesn't currently have a wikipedia page as her running mate, especially if they don't do anything in the next two years to become more prominent.

That would be a rare case in which the Veep nominee matters a lot.

Yeah, it would be fun to see unravelling actually.
She did try out for the congressional house seat currently occupied by the Cuban voters-flirting Ileana-Ros Lehtinen in 2008 (I know she is Cuban American herself, though her rethoric has always been over-the-top talking about how she wanted to kill Castro and what not). This was Ileana's narrowest electoral win since she first won her seat in 1990! She beat Annette by only accumulating 57.87% of the vote. Usually she's won with about 70% (or close to it) of the vote.

[eric82oslo]

-Martin O'Malley is boring and has no vision

I think O'Malley has more vision than most actually. He's one of the very few Democratic Governors who's got a lot progressive stuff done in his state during the past decade or so actually. Executive action always trumps visionary ideas anyways, in my view at least.
However I do agree that he's not all that great in interview situations. He's much better when he's prepared his stuff/speech.