Election 2020

[Kinser79]

(05-22-2019, 03:03 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-22-2019, 07:52 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Kerry wouldn't get out of the then Blue Wall (that Trump broke).  That isn't enough to get elected.  McCain made a bad bad bad mistake in 2008 in that he picked Palin who proceeded to make an ass of herself nationally.  Caribou Barbie would have been less of an issue had the man not been so old.

When the parties run someone who is very old it matters who they pick as VP.  Which is why Pence for his flaws was a good pick for Trump.  He had Senate Experience and could work the Hill (which is largely what he does for Trump) and wasn't so out there that he scares away most Americans.

Back in the day, Kerry took the hot seat in DC for the Winter Soldier investigations, which put him squarely in the sights of one Richard Milhouse Nixon.  I was a VVAW member at the time, and remember that it was the only antiwar movement that had traction, and that pissed-off a lot of powerful people.  How that made him a bland and safe candidate 3 decades later is a mystery.

Not my point.  He didn't get out of the Blue Wall, and that isn't enough to get 270 votes.

I would say Kerry became "safe" after spending over a decade in the Senate.  It is hardly a mystery to anyone who pays attention to those who occasionally sit in either chamber of Congress.