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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 23, 2015, 12:51:44 AM »

I don't think there are many openly LGB candidates who would qualify to be VP. Baldwin supported the TPP, so that would be a turn-off to progressives, a group that Clinton is already having some issues wooing. Jared Polis and Annise Parker don't have any name recognition that would boost Clinton's support. I have never been a fan of politicians choosing running mates based on their membership in a minority demographic (this is something the Republicans will almost certainly do next year: Fiorina's a woman, Rubio and Cruz are Latino, Carson is black, Jindal is Indian), but I think a strong progressive VP nominee (assuming Clinton doesn't select Sanders or O'Malley), who just so happens to be in a minority group, would be Keith Ellison of Minnesota; he is a Muslim and he is as progressive as Sanders, O'Malley, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Alan Grayson, etc.

Don't forget, Sanders himself is a minority, since he's Jewish. It doesn't have much bearing on his candidacy, but if he were a VP nominee, he would be the first Jewish one.
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Zioneer
PioneerProgress
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2015, 01:34:36 AM »

Don't forget, Sanders himself is a minority, since he's Jewish. It doesn't have much bearing on his candidacy, but if he were a VP nominee, he would be the first Jewish one.



Oh yeah, Lieberman. Literally completely forgot about him. I guess Sanders would be the second Jewish VP nominee or the first Jewish presidential nominee.
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