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March 15, 2017

It begins!

"O'Malley tests 2020 waters with Iowa poll."

I am all a-twitter.

25 comments:

M Jordan said...: O'Malley's thinking about running again? Who can blame him after that last heroic jaunt.; 3/15/17, 9:05 AM
tcrosse said...: He still has to get past the Queen in Exile.; 3/15/17, 9:19 AM
Humperdink said...: Well he's got "former mayor of Baltimore" on his resume, so there's that. What a fine city it is.; 3/15/17, 9:27 AM
ddh said...: The man who taxed rainfall in Maryland tests the waters in Iowa.; 3/15/17, 9:29 AM
TosaGuy said...: Every party needs its perpetual no-chance candidate that no one votes for.; 3/15/17, 9:35 AM
Michael K said...: At least he is younger than the rest of the party.

I expect to see Cory Booker run.; 3/15/17, 9:40 AM
Danno said...: Since I don't do twitter, my heart is never atwitter. And frankly, only birds should tweet. But however, if this means having the Dems go for a candidate not named Hillary, I'm all for it.; 3/15/17, 9:42 AM
Fernandinande said...: Sometimes I get sick of these people with their future-oriented behaviors such as planning and delaying gratification. They sure cause a lot of problems for other people.; 3/15/17, 9:49 AM
AllenS said...: O'Malley will drop out as soon as you-know-who threatens to take his scalp.; 3/15/17, 10:00 AM
Original Mike said...: I can't wait not to vote for him.; 3/15/17, 10:06 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Did O'Malley run last time? I had forgot:); 3/15/17, 10:18 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Hopefully, Lincoln Chaffee will follow O'Malley's lead - the bland following the bland.; 3/15/17, 10:20 AM
Sebastian said...: Sorry, Marty. It's Oprah time. She won't need no polls.; 3/15/17, 10:24 AM
Tank said...: Pitiful.; 3/15/17, 10:38 AM
Mitch H. said...: IF the Democrats want to win in 2020, it'll be someone from the Midwest. A senator, maybe?; 3/15/17, 10:53 AM
jaydub said...: Who said the Democrat bench wasn't deep? ;); 3/15/17, 11:17 AM
Christy said...: O'Malley's vulnerable on the sexual picadillo front. It got shut down in a hurry the first time it made it into social media because it came from a republican staffer and well, Maryland, but I had heard about it from a reliable source in his mayoral administration a year or so before it became public. Of course, my reliable source is nothing to you and certainly no proof, but good opposition research could be fruitful and delicious.; 3/15/17, 12:09 PM
tcrosse said...: Hillary's entitlement has not yet expired.; 3/15/17, 12:18 PM
Big Mike said...: Now if Chuck really was a lifelong Republican, he'd be joining me in saying "Please, please, PLEASE!"; 3/15/17, 1:47 PM
Bad Lieutenant said...: Christy said...but good opposition research could be fruitful and delicious.

Do you mean "fruity?" Delicious!; 3/15/17, 1:49 PM
Bad Lieutenant said...: Naw, Big Mike, if C were a loyal patriotic American he'd be begging and praying for H to run again, and to shiv all D opposition by any means necessary, as is her wont.; 3/15/17, 1:51 PM
southcentralpa said...: Yeah, everyone is lining up to vote for a guy who took a lib state hard left to try to set himself up to run to HRC's left.; 3/15/17, 2:06 PM
jaed said...: The formula for Democrats is classically "governor of a red or reddish state, preferably in the South".
Looks like it's slim pickins out there, though.

This is for years when they don't have a "charistmatic member of a groundbreaking demographic group". But I think they can only pull an Obama once—the "first Latino president" or "first Asian president" just is not going to have the resonance that "first black president" did. And I'm not seeing any groundbreaking women out there with the necessary ingredients on the Dem side—as Hillary showed us, the charisma is a necessary part of the equation.; 3/15/17, 3:00 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: It's never too early to finish last.; 3/15/17, 3:42 PM
Eric said...: We will know that the Trump economic miracle has been achieved when even Martin O'Malley can get a paying job.; 3/15/17, 6:38 PM