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

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I think Tim Kaine would be a great VP pick, Beshear is way too old and too conservative for a national Dem ticket I don't know why people even include him.

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Bennett will be running for re-election the same with Bullock in likely competitive races it would be like Republicans picking Ayotte for VP when she would be in a competitive race. Kaine and Warner have already been on the national stage and vetted I think it will come down to both of them. Castro has little accomplishments and doesn't even speak Spanish while Kaine does fluently with a far more impressive record.

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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.

She's more of a Senate candidate and a Lt. Gov has never been picked as a VP it's a useless position with no responsibilities.

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-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.

O'Malley hasn't been leading his legislature, they've been leading him and he's been rubber-stamping.

Exactly any Dem in his place could claim the record he has gay marriage, marijuana decriminalization, the Dream Act, the gun control bill all came out of the legislature with little effort from him. I'd be more impressed if he could do all those things in a state like Minnesota or Colorado and still stay popular.