Possible REP Or DEM Canidates For President In 2016

[Kevin]

I was just wondering if anybody has any ideas on possible presidental canidates in 2016?

[tarheel-leftist85]

VP Blanche Lincoln (win, 450+EV) v. Sen. Johnny Isackson

[Sarnstrom]

This could be the year for BARACK OBAMA!!

[PBrunsel]

GOP:

Gov. Ralph Reed (GA)
Gov. Jim Nussle (IA)
Sen. Johnny Isakson (GA)
Sen. Brian Sandoval (NV)
Gov. J.C. Watts (OK)
Gov. Matt Blunt (MO)

Democratic:

Gov. Gavin Newsome (CA)
Sen. Barack Obama (IL)
Sen. Harold Ford (TN)
Gov. Brian Schweitzer (MT)
Sen. Paul Hackett (OH)

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Angelides / Obama 2016!

[Speed of Sound]

Angelides / Obama 2016!

something gives me a bad feeling about that ticket and I dont know why.

[Ben.]

Senators Harold Ford or Barack Obama

[Kevin]

   If Lynn Swann takes Scarnton's offer of LT. Govenor and this taket goes on to beat Ed Rendell next November now let's assume that Swann serves a couple of years as LT. Govenor. In 2010 Specter retaires from the Senate and Swann gets the nomanation to replace Specter and he wins the Senate seat and after 6 sucessful years as Senator Swann runs for president. I think it is possible consedering Swann's age and poltical possibltys.           

[Frodo]

Democrats

Gov. Brian Schweitzer (MT)
Gov. Elliot Spitzer (NY)
Sen. Barack Obama (IL)
Gov. Ted Strickland (OH)
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR)

Republicans

Gov. Ralph Reed (GA)
Gov. Mark Sanford (SC)
Gov. Jim Nussle (IA)
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I can't think of anyone else.

[© tweed]

Fmr. Senator John Edwards [he's going to run for president every year from now until he dies]
Fmr. Governor Mark Warner [should run for Virginia Governor again in 2009]
Senator Barack Obama
Senator Stephanie Herseth
Governor Ted Strickland

As for Republicans, I have no clue.

[Jake]

Governor Ralph Reed (GA)
Senator John Thune (SD)
Senator (or maybe not) Rick Santorum (PA)
Senator Tom Kean Jr. (NJ)
Governor Charlie Crist (FL)
Governor Henry Bonnila (TX)
Governor Marilyn Musgrave (CO)
Senator Eric Cantor (VA)

Senator Barack Obama (IL)
Governor Bob Casey Jr. (PA)
Brian Schweitzer (MT)
Senator Paul Hackett (OH)
Governor Claire McCaskill (MO)

[12th Doctor]

   If Lynn Swann takes Scarnton's offer of LT. Govenor and this taket goes on to beat Ed Rendell next November now let's assume that Swann serves a couple of years as LT. Govenor. In 2010 Specter retaires from the Senate and Swann gets the nomanation to replace Specter and he wins the Senate seat and after 6 sucessful years as Senator Swann runs for president. I think it is possible consedering Swann's age and poltical possibltys.           

Oddly enough, I was having a very similar conversation with Phil English the other day and he seemed to be of the same opinion.

[Democratic Hawk]

2016 certainly wouldn't be too late for either of my prefered Democrats (Bayh and Warner). Warner can seek re-election in 2009 in Virginia and, if he is able to, Bayh should resign his Senate seat in 2008 and run for governor of Indiana

I know in Indiana, governors can't serve more than two consecutive terms but I'm not sure, if after a break, they can serve another two consecutive terms. I can't see Bayh having any problems, he was a stellar governor and, more often than not, good governors make good presidents

Dave

[skybridge]

Obama.

[Reaganfan]

2016

Governor Blackwell/Governor Swann

VS

Senator Obama/Governor Casey

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2016

Governor Blackwell/Governor Swann

VS

Senator Obama/Governor Casey

Who is 'Governor Casey'?

[Lincoln Republican]

Democrat
Sen Mark Pryor (AR)
Sen Mary Landrieu (LA)

Republican
Sen David Vitter (LA)
Sen John Ensign (NV)
Sen John Sununu (NH)
Sen John Thune (SD)

The 2016 Presidential Election

Republican Senator Mark Sanford (SC)/Governor Condoleezza Rice (CA)
Democrat Governor Eliot Spitzer (NY)/Senator Blanche Lincoln (AR)

You heard it here first

[MODU]

Too far in the future to make any logical guess.

[TheresNoMoney]

Dems:

Gov. O'Malley (MD)
Gov. Schweitzer (MT)
Sen. Obama (IL)
Gov. Strickland (OH)
Gov. Spitzer (NY)
Gov. Beebe (AR)

I expect a pretty strong crop of Democrats in 2016.

As for Republicans:

Sen. John Thune (SD)
former Gov. Mark Sanford (SC)
Gov. Jim Nussle (IA-if he happens to get elected)
 
Not really any others that pop into my head.

[PBrunsel]

Gov. Jim Nussle (IA-if he happens to get elected)

Oh, he'll get elected. He has no real competiton from the Democrats.

[Moooooo]

Gov. Jim Nussle (IA-if he happens to get elected)

Oh, he'll get elected. He has no real competiton from the Democrats.

Culver seems like a decent candidate.  Afterall, he has the statewide name ID that Nussle lacks and from the polls Ive seen he's running neck and neck with Nussle (granted the poll was zogby).   Nussle also has some pretty nasty skeletons in his closet.  I havent seen any primary polling data, but Nussle's primary opponent Bob Vander Plaats looks like a pretty decent candidate.  So he also has that to worry about.

[TheresNoMoney]

Oh, he'll get elected. He has no real competiton from the Democrats.

And people call me a partisan hack!!

Iowa will likely be a very close race:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051109/NEWS09/511090358/1056

http://www.kcci.com/download/2005/1118/5354161.pdf

[PBrunsel]

Oh, he'll get elected. He has no real competiton from the Democrats.

And people call me a partisan hack!!

Iowa will likely be a very close race:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051109/NEWS09/511090358/1056

http://www.kcci.com/download/2005/1118/5354161.pdf

It is the Culver name that is giving him this support.

Iowa will be close, no doubt about that. With Vilsack as popular as he is (and him being a decent Governor) it will be close, but Nussle will win it. Vilsack no Mark Warner, and Iowa is a Republican-leaning state.

Culver will be a difficult opponent for Nussle, but Bobby Van Der Platts will be pushed aside in winning 43% on primary day next June. Doug Gross out shone Vand Der Platts in 2002. Nussle is no Dug Gross, Culver is no Tom Vilsack.

[Erc]

We're 11 years out, folks...

Predictions can be made...

A guess of John Kerry in '93 wouldn't have been too unreasonable [although I doubt many would have seen a nine-year Senator as "rising star" material]--but no-one would have been able to predict the situation in 2004 in 1993, certainly.

But in 1989, who'd have guessed that George W. Bush would have run for President in 2000.

Bob Dole in 1985--not unreasonable, although most people would have pegged him for '88, not '96.

Bill Clinton in 1981?  An unknown governor of Arkansas who served for a brief two years before being thrown out of office?

Michael Dukakis in 1977?  Maybe.  An up-and-coming Governor of Massachusetts two years into office...

George Bush in 1977?  People were thinking about him for 1980, if at all.

Walter Mondale in 1973?  Not too bad of a guess--a one-term senator who just won re-election in 1972 of all years...

Ronald Reagan in 1969?  Not a bad guess, considering he'd made an effort the previous year.  Although talk would have been more focused (and for good reason) on 1976.

Jimmy Carter in 1965?  An unknown Georgia State Senator?  I don't think so.

Gerald Ford in 1965?  Not the most likely of candidates, as House Minority Leader, but certainly could have been talked about (if quickly dismissed) in abstract terms.

George McGovern in 1961?  A former South Dakota Congressman who just lost an election for Senate?  Not very likely.

Richard Nixon in 1957?  Certainly, although few would have guessed 1968 for him.

Hubert Humphrey in 1957?  Certainly could have (and probably would have) been on people's lists (perhaps for sooner than 1968).

Barry Goldwater in 1953?  A rising star at the time (having unseated the Senate Majority Leader)--and, for once, a rising star who actually got the nomination down the road.

Lyndon Johnson in 1953?  Another rising star, the new Senate Minority Leader thanks to Goldwater's unseating of the prior leader.

JFK in 1949?  An Congressman from the Boston area--politically well-heeled, but unknown outside Massachusetts, certainly.

Nixon in 1949?  After Alger Hiss, he was certainly well-known at the time...

Stevenson in 1941/5?  An Assistant Secretary of the Navy?  No-one had heard of the guy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower in November 1941?  Some random Brigadier General--don't think so.

Thomas E. Dewey in 1937?  The new DA in Manhattan isn't a bad position for a Republican in 1937...but enough to consider him Presidential material?  Apparently, he did, as he ran in 1940 anyway.

Harry Truman in 1937?  Possible, as a freshman Senator, but not *that* likely.

Thomas E. Dewey in 1933?  Who?

Wendell Wilkie in 1929?  Some Democrat lawyer--least likely candidate ever.

Alf Landon in 1925?  Some random liberal Republican in Kansas...nope.

FDR in 1921?  Sure--akin to John Edwards, the guy who just lost his race for VP.

Hoover in 1917?  Well known, well-respected--why didn't he run earlier?

Al Smith in 1917?  Sherrif of Manhattan--perhaps significant--assuming he got elected Governor at some point.

John W. Davis in 1913?  US Solictor Generals make great Presidents, riiight...

Calvin Coolidge in 1913?  Some random State Senator...

James Cox in 1909?  Local Ohio newspaperman and freshman Congressman--not exactly highest caliber.

Warren G. Harding in 1909?  Local Ohio newspaperman four years out of a term as Lieutenant Governor.  Heck, if Harding had a chance, we should be considering Sherrod Brown for President come 2016...

Charles Evans Hughes in 1905?  A New York lawyer---hmm, I don't think so

Woodrow Wilson in 1905?  President of Princeton.


There have been cases when it could be predicted...but they're few and far between.

Calvin Coolidge in 1913?

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We're 11 years out, folks...

Predictions can be made...

A guess of John Kerry in '93 wouldn't have been too unreasonable [although I doubt many would have seen a nine-year Senator as "rising star" material]--but no-one would have been able to predict the situation in 2004 in 1993, certainly.

But in 1989, who'd have guessed that George W. Bush would have run for President in 2000.

Bob Dole in 1985--not unreasonable, although most people would have pegged him for '88, not '96.

Bill Clinton in 1981?  An unknown governor of Arkansas who served for a brief two years before being thrown out of office?

Michael Dukakis in 1977?  Maybe.  An up-and-coming Governor of Massachusetts two years into office...

George Bush in 1977?  People were thinking about him for 1980, if at all.

Walter Mondale in 1973?  Not too bad of a guess--a one-term senator who just won re-election in 1972 of all years...

Ronald Reagan in 1969?  Not a bad guess, considering he'd made an effort the previous year.  Although talk would have been more focused (and for good reason) on 1976.

Jimmy Carter in 1965?  An unknown Georgia State Senator?  I don't think so.

Gerald Ford in 1965?  Not the most likely of candidates, as House Minority Leader, but certainly could have been talked about (if quickly dismissed) in abstract terms.

George McGovern in 1961?  A former South Dakota Congressman who just lost an election for Senate?  Not very likely.

Richard Nixon in 1957?  Certainly, although few would have guessed 1968 for him.

Hubert Humphrey in 1957?  Certainly could have (and probably would have) been on people's lists (perhaps for sooner than 1968).

Barry Goldwater in 1953?  A rising star at the time (having unseated the Senate Majority Leader)--and, for once, a rising star who actually got the nomination down the road.

Lyndon Johnson in 1953?  Another rising star, the new Senate Minority Leader thanks to Goldwater's unseating of the prior leader.

JFK in 1949?  An Congressman from the Boston area--politically well-heeled, but unknown outside Massachusetts, certainly.

Nixon in 1949?  After Alger Hiss, he was certainly well-known at the time...

Stevenson in 1941/5?  An Assistant Secretary of the Navy?  No-one had heard of the guy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower in November 1941?  Some random Brigadier General--don't think so.

Thomas E. Dewey in 1937?  The new DA in Manhattan isn't a bad position for a Republican in 1937...but enough to consider him Presidential material?  Apparently, he did, as he ran in 1940 anyway.

Harry Truman in 1937?  Possible, as a freshman Senator, but not *that* likely.

Thomas E. Dewey in 1933?  Who?

Wendell Wilkie in 1929?  Some Democrat lawyer--least likely candidate ever.

Alf Landon in 1925?  Some random liberal Republican in Kansas...nope.

FDR in 1921?  Sure--akin to John Edwards, the guy who just lost his race for VP.

Hoover in 1917?  Well known, well-respected--why didn't he run earlier?

Al Smith in 1917?  Sherrif of Manhattan--perhaps significant--assuming he got elected Governor at some point.

John W. Davis in 1913?  US Solictor Generals make great Presidents, riiight...

Calvin Coolidge in 1913?  Some random State Senator...

James Cox in 1909?  Local Ohio newspaperman and freshman Congressman--not exactly highest caliber.

Warren G. Harding in 1909?  Local Ohio newspaperman four years out of a term as Lieutenant Governor.  Heck, if Harding had a chance, we should be considering Sherrod Brown for President come 2016...

Charles Evans Hughes in 1905?  A New York lawyer---hmm, I don't think so

Woodrow Wilson in 1905?  President of Princeton.


There have been cases when it could be predicted...but they're few and far between.

Calvin Coolidge in 1913?

Al Gore '89.