Would Hillary Clinton win Missouri if she picked Dick Gephardt (D-MO)?

[Suburbia]

Would Hillary Clinton win Missouri in 2016, if she picked former congressman Dick Gephardt? Would he be old news for the Democratic party? Is a cabinet position better for him?

[Heimdal]

I really don’t see the point in picking a lobbyist who served in Congress 12 years ago. If she wants to balance the ticket with a politician from Missouri, she would be better served with Jay Nixon or Claire McCaskill.

[MurrayBannerman]

I really don’t see the point in picking a lobbyist who served in Congress 12 years ago. If she wants to balance the ticket with a politician from Missouri, she would be better served with Jay Nixon or Claire McCaskill.

Good luck convincing Hillary to do that.

[Heimdal]

I really don’t see the point in picking a lobbyist who served in Congress 12 years ago. If she wants to balance the ticket with a politician from Missouri, she would be better served with Jay Nixon or Claire McCaskill.

Good luck convincing Hillary to do that.

Still a better option than Dick Gephardt. But Nixon would probably be a better candidate than McCaskill.

[Supersonic]

He's old news and VP choices don't count for much.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Clinton/Nixon would be the ultimate corrupt ticket of the modern era.

[Potatoe]

Clinton/Nixon would be the ultimate corrupt ticket of the modern era.

You do know which Nixon he means?

[TDAS04]

Not going to happen.

[IceSpear]

I really don’t see the point in picking a lobbyist who served in Congress 12 years ago. If she wants to balance the ticket with a politician from Missouri, she would be better served with Jay Nixon or Claire McCaskill.

This.

Also, she'll have a very good chance of winning it even without someone from Missouri as her running mate.

[SWE]

If she's going to pick someone from Missouri, it's Jay Nixon.

[Heimdal]

I really don’t see the point in picking a lobbyist who served in Congress 12 years ago. If she wants to balance the ticket with a politician from Missouri, she would be better served with Jay Nixon or Claire McCaskill.

This.

Also, she'll have a very good chance of winning it even without someone from Missouri as her running mate.

Indeed. The Democrats doesn’t need Missouri’s electoral votes to win the presidency.

[Indy Texas]

A Clinton/Gephardt ticket would have me seriously mulling the implications of Speaker John Boehner ascending to the presidency at some point.

Might as well have Jerry Brown as her running mate. Or Bob Kerrey.

[Mister Mets]

No for several reasons.

1. Obama lost Missouri by more than nine points in a good year for the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton can't realistically be expected to make that up, nor is it necessary.
2. Dick Gephardt will be in his Mid-70s. That will likely hurt the ticket nationally, which would limit the ticket's effectiveness in Missouri.
3. Vice Presidential candidates can be worth a few points in a key swing state. But the max is about four points with an immensely popular statewide officeholder.
4. Gephardt did not serve in statewide office so the home state advantage will be diminished.

[stevekamp]

Concur with Mr.  Mets.  In raw margin terms, the Rs went from winning by 3,903 in 2008 to winning by 258,644 in 2012. At the Pres level, Dems have lost the rural strength that enabled George McGovern to carry Monroe County (Paris).

Gephardt's old district 3 (Caucasian St. Louis) does not even exist anymore -- it was collapsed into the Bill Clay district 1. Gephardt never ran for statewide office.

If a Missourian goes on the D ticket in 2016, (Gov. Jay) Nixon's The One...wouldn't that be a slogan!

[fartboy]

He's how old?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

He's how old?

73.

And yes, the guy was already such a yesterday news when he ran for the last time in 2004. Beside, it's better to pick a statewide elected official than a former Congressman, never elected beyond his district.

[Suburbia]

A Clinton/Gephardt 2016 ticket would probably be a dull ticket. Two Democrats that voted for the Iraq War, which still is a angry issue for voters would be on the news, and Gephardt would be old. But heck, some people want Jerry Brown to run for president in 2016, so anything can happen. I don't know if anyone in Missouri remembers Gephardt well too, but oh well.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

No, after Feguson, MO is gone=best to go for the Goldwater West instead of Ohio River Valley to win the prez, someone like Webb-Kaine-Warner-Hickenlooper mold.

[KCDem]

This isn't 2004.

[Suburbia]

This isn't 2004.

I know that. Gephardt could help with the union vote that Democrats need. Although he's been out of office for a decade, union members still like him.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Good idea, but I think she is going to pick someone far younger.

[KCDem]

This isn't 2004.

I know that. Gephardt could help with the union vote that Democrats need. Although he's been out of office for a decade, union members still like him.

Proof please, or not buying it.

[Xing]

I don't think a running mate from Missouri would help her in the state that much. Either way, I don't see MO going democratic except in a landslide.

[The Mikado]

This isn't 2004.

I know that. Gephardt could help with the union vote that Democrats need. Although he's been out of office for a decade, union members still like him.

Dick Gephardt struggled to find any real support in 2004, was held in contempt by most of the party during his tenure as Minority Leader, and is a fossil now, especially given that Clinton is already on the elderly side. Clinton needs someone from the next generation, not an even older boomer.

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Well, at least Gephardt didn't take 13 years to say his support for the Iraq war was a mistake, but how about a ticket where neither made that idiotic mistake?