pragmatic liberal
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« on: March 17, 2007, 12:34:02 AM » |
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I'm gonna guess Barack Obama will be the next one.
After that, I'll just throw a couple of names out there who are a little more obscure right now.
the current Illinois State Treasurer Lisa Madigan is young, well-connected, popular and likely to run for governor in 2010. Given the state of the Illinois GOP, she has an excellent chance at winning, and if she does and gets reelected, as a relatively young, popular, attractive female governor of a large Midwestern state, she could very well be a presidential contender at some point.
On the Republican side, Rep. Bobby Jindal who will likely run for governor of Louisiana next year could be a strong possibility in 2016, or so. Also, former Rep. Anne Northup could be a contender if she wins the Kentucky governorship this year.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland's another Democratic possibility.
Truth be told, though, it's very hard to make a prediction beyond the next six years. Neither George W. Bush nor Jimmy Carter were on anybody's radar eight years before they were elected. And Bill Clinton was only known to political junkies and ranked well below several others deemed future presidents such as Chuck Robb, Sam Nunn, Mario Cuomo and Bill Bradley. Hell, who would have predicted in 2003 that the 2008 Democratic nominee could very plausibly be a state senator named Barack Obama? (I'd actually heard of Obama by then, but I certainly didn't expect him, even if he won his senate race, to be a candidate for president by 2008.)
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