Should Hillary Clinton vet Jared Polis?

[Mister Mets]

Is Jared Polis a plausible running mate for Hillary Clinton?

He's a young progressive favorite from a key swing state. He'll have served in Congress for eight years, with six additional years on the Colorado Board of Education, giving him policy chops on one of the most meaningful issues. He's gay, and you can bet that some Republican is going to say something stupid that the people on the ticket will have to disavow. He's a successful businessman in a relatively noncontroversial field (online flowers.)

It seems like he's someone the Clinton campaign can take a look at.

[Thunderbird is the word]

Colorado won't be a swing state. Against Hillary it's solid R for almost any Republican running because we all kn what a bad fit she is for the state.

[HAnnA MArin County]

Colorado won't be a swing state. Against Hillary it's solid R for almost any Republican running because we all kn what a bad fit she is for the state.

This tends to be the conventional wisdom on Atlas, which tends to believe that Colorado is more "Safe R" than Utah.

But no, she shouldn't put Jared Polis on the ticket. A young gay Jew from Boulder, I can hear it now.

[DS0816]

Will the Democratic Party win a third consecutive presidential cycle with 2016?

If "yes," Jared Polis, the congressman from Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, would be a fine choice.

If the answer is "no," it doesn't matter who the person is at the top of the ticket let along who the running mate would be. (But it would be rich if one of both is a ConservaDem.)

[Mr. Illini]

Too liberal.

[WVdemocrat]

Why does Atlas love finding obscure congresspeople who look good on paper and trying to thrust them into the national spotlight? I don't get it.

[Maxwell]

Jared Polis is one of my favorite Democrats, but Hillary won't pick him.

[Ebsy]

Out of the diminished backbench of Democrats in the House, Polis actually stands out more than most for his work delivering Colorado for Obama in 2008. But still, House members add nothing to the ticket. See: Paul Ryan in 2012.