Which individuals' endorsements would be helpful to the Democratic candidates?

[retromike22]

Assuming they don't run themselves, which individuals' endorsements would be helpful to the GOP candidates in the primaries?

[The Dowager Mod]

Huh?

[eric82oslo]

Let's see:

Elisabeth Warren
Bill Gates
Al Gore
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Oprah Winfrey
Mark Warner
Kirsten Gillibrand
Ellen DeGeneres
Bill Maher
Mike Bloomberg
Beyonce
The Castro Brothers
Bernie Sanders
(maybe Bill de Blasio)
(Bill Clinton - if Hillary doesn't run)
(Hillary Clinton - if she doesn't run)

Probably many others as well, but these are the ones I can think of right now.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Zel Miller

[Mr. Smith]

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He's an old relic, and a conservative. An endorsement from him would simply drive the liberal base away. And he spited John Kerry before leaving Senate. The ghost of Gerald Ford would be a more useful endorsement than him.

Now Mark Warner, the Clintons (should Hillary not run), Barack Obama (presidential endorsements are with the exceptions of perhaps Jimmy Carter and Dubya usually very powerful), John Kerry, Elizabeth Warren, Paul Davis [if he wins], Jason Carter [if he wins], Terry McAuliffe, Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown,Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, Kay Hagan... all of these could go somewhere....

But not Zell Miller, it'd be like  a GOP runner trying to get the endorsement of Colin Powell and hope to not piss of the regressive/retrograde conservative base.

[Blue3]

At the national level, only Clinton/Obama/Warren/Biden and maybe Gore.

[Rockefeller GOP]

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He's an old relic, and a conservative. An endorsement from him would simply drive the liberal base away. And he spited John Kerry before leaving Senate. The ghost of Gerald Ford would be a more useful endorsement than him.

Now Mark Warner, the Clintons (should Hillary not run), Barack Obama (presidential endorsements are with the exceptions of perhaps Jimmy Carter and Dubya usually very powerful), John Kerry, Elizabeth Warren, Paul Davis [if he wins], Jason Carter [if he wins], Terry McAuliffe, Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown,Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, Kay Hagan... all of these could go somewhere....

But not Zell Miller, it'd be like  a GOP runner trying to get the endorsement of Colin Powell and hope to not piss of the regressive/retrograde conservative base.

Haha, I was just kidding.  Nobody likes Zel Miller except a few Southerners pining for days long gone.

[politicus]

The Castro Brothers

Good call, would certainly help with the Cubans, but alas I believe Fidel is death.

[eric82oslo]

At the national level, only Clinton/Obama/Warren/Biden and maybe Gore.

Not sure Biden would be a net plus to be honest. Very few people actually likes Biden. And those who say they like him (mostly blacks) only like him in an attempt to stay loyal to Obama.

[eric82oslo]

The Castro Brothers

Good call, would certainly help with the Cubans, but alas I believe Fidel is death.

Lol, what an idiotic comment. (Not even funny.)

[Blue3]

At the national level, only Clinton/Obama/Warren/Biden and maybe Gore.

Not sure Biden would be a net plus to be honest. Very few people actually likes Biden. And those who say they like him (mostly blacks) only like him in an attempt to stay loyal to Obama.

Not true. He connects with white working-class voters.

[IceSpear]

At the national level, only Clinton/Obama/Warren/Biden and maybe Gore.

Not sure Biden would be a net plus to be honest. Very few people actually likes Biden. And those who say they like him (mostly blacks) only like him in an attempt to stay loyal to Obama.

Not true. He connects with white working-class voters.

I think this is more true in theory than in practice. If he was that good with white working class voters, he probably would've cracked 1% in the primaries.

[Blue3]

At the national level, only Clinton/Obama/Warren/Biden and maybe Gore.

Not sure Biden would be a net plus to be honest. Very few people actually likes Biden. And those who say they like him (mostly blacks) only like him in an attempt to stay loyal to Obama.

Not true. He connects with white working-class voters.

I think this is more true in theory than in practice. If he was that good with white working class voters, he probably would've cracked 1% in the primaries.

That was when he was competing with Clinton, Obama, and scandal-free Edwards. Not many voters saw him as likely to win and thus didn't treat him as seriously as one of the Big 3. As a VP, and after the country gas had years to know him better, Biden's say matters a lot more. And he's second to Hillary now in the polls.

But the main point of my post is that hardly any endorsements matter much on the national scale.