Amy Klobuchar 2020 campaign megathread

[lfromnj]

The biggest threat to Trump most likely. Question is if she can take off.

Shes as close to "generic Democrat" as you can get. That's great in the general but a hindrance in the primary. I'm not sure she can overcome how vanilla she is.

She's literally a liberal Michele Bachmann minus the charisma. I don't get why people think she's such a threat to Trump.

UH Michelle bachmann is the idiot who almost lost a Romney +15 district as an incumbent in 2012.
Klobuchar is the candidate who managed to Carry a trump +30 district.

[lfromnj]

I really like Klobuchar on paper, but the stories of how she treats her staff are horrific and disqualifying. I definitely couldn’t support her in the primary for that reason.

What are the stories?

Ik she has the highest staff turnover rate.

[lfromnj]

She's running for VP probably and she would be a decent VP choice. However I still stand by the fact that the best candidate for VP would be Duckworth who fills all the checkboxes needed in the Democratic Party besides economically progressive.

[lfromnj]

Anecdotally, I've heard Amy has a weak ground game in NV, while Buttigieg has a stronger one there.

To be fair, and I say this as a Amy fan, she presumably has a weak ground game everywhere. She's still in the race because her campaign has proved itself to be a diligent steward of resources; some of how they've been able to do that is must be by not stretching themselves in too many directions. We're going to get a sudden test of what happens when your campaign is given an infusion of cash and attention but very little time to deploy it. How are they going to use their money? I would expect a surprising amount of money will go into ads; there's simply not enough time to hire people who will know anything useful about the state of Nevada at this point.

Depending on your definition of ground game, she had a very strong one in IA though it ended up not helping her much. She was the only candidate to have visited all 99 counties. And being from a neighboring state, she probably had plenty of staffers who knew lots about IA, especially the northern third.

Of course. Sorry; I should've specified "everywhere that isn't IA/NH". Like, she did have a good ground game in IA, and apparently enough of one in NH to capitalize on her blip. But I doubt she had much resources to invest elsewhere.

She won almost every Newspaper endorsement in NH which does show she had a strong ground game.