Discussion for article #236357
Governor O’Malley…I had thought that maybe I could vote for you, but now…honestly…after Baltimore and the problems there…I’ve got too many questions about your time as mayor of that city and the problems it may have caused long term to consider you as a candidate.
I’m voting for Sanders.
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Mayor Tommy Carcetti is throwing his hat in the ring? Did I say Mayor Tommy Carcetti? I meant Governor Tommy Carcetti! Sorry! Sorry everyone! 
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Yawn…
Chaffey all but declared on Bill Maher last week, so he is definitely in…though he had a horrible performance on the show. I keep seeing Webb’s name being tossed in there, so I suppose he is pretty definite about tossing his hat in as well. It’s looking less and less likely that Biden is going to enter, though.
The one name that seems to have just vanished from the list though, is Barry Schweitzer. Not that I wanted him to run, but after all the noise he was making about it last year (the last two years really), he seems to have just disappeared entirely. Which is odd, because with Hillary making early moves to at least cover her left flank, if not out and out moving to the left, she is leaving room open on her right…which is where Schweitzer would definitely have fit.
O’Malley-- what the hell are you thinking? You need to take care of business in Maryland before anyone would seriously consider you for higher office.
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Chafee also had a genuinely horrible performance in his one and done term as governor of RI. lol
Well to blame him for Baltimore problems is really unfair. He may not be the nominee but like him, he’s smart, and he will bring a good debate to the table.
Wow, seriously. Single-handedly blaming him is really outrageous. Look what Bill Clinton did while he was in office. He was responsible for the 3 strikes law and doing away with welfare. Have you blamed him? Let’s be fair here
I don’t blame him for the end result or directly for what happened, but it’s going to put him into a very delicate situation and a lot of the answers he’s likely to have are going to be kind of one or the other and none are going to look overly good.
Sanders is still my first choice because I know him very well (as a politician. I’ve never gotten to meet him in person) given that he’s my state’s Junior Senator. Sanders is blunt and honest and hasn’t wavered in his support for what he supports since before I was born.
I blame the narrative that poor people are lazy and moochers that has been in existence since before Dickens was writing. The problem on Clinton’s end is he never worked to counter that message, so I blame him for a lot of the problems in poor areas of the country.