The "Who is running?" tea leaves thread (Part 2)

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Looks like Hillary's team is terrified of the O'Malley/Webb juggernauts. No matter how much she raises, nothing will save her from her incoming curbstomping.

She's afraid of Sanders even more!

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Sanders has previously suggested that he won't run if there's someone else out there adequately promoting his issues.  He doesn't seem to think that Clinton will be that person:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/29/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-probably-not-bold-enough-for-2016/

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As noted in that story, Sanders is also set to return to New Hampshire this weekend.

I'd say that there's a greater than 50% chance that he runs. Maybe even 85-90%. He's been making the rounds to IA and NH and I've been seeing him in the news.

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Seriously, including Warren in the polls at this point is even worse than including Romney and Ryan on the Republican side.

I'd like to see a poll without her too. I'm guessing that the pollsters are hoping for her to run, like Obama in 2008.

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Martin O'Malley http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/us/politics/martin-omalley-in-veiled-jab-at-hillary-clinton-derides-politics-of-triangulation.html?_r=0 in South Carolina.

Wow, brutal. O'Malley is not one to be trifled with.

Yeah, O'Malley hates Hillary and her triangulation so much that he was one of the first people to endorse her in 2007.

What a hypocrite.

Probably more of a "I don't like her, but Biden/Dodd have no real shot at the nomination, and I'll take her over a couple of one term senators (Edwards, Obama), a total liberal loon (Kucinich, Gravel), and a decidedly average governor (Richardson)." rather than a truly enthusiastic endorsement.

Edwards was surely more than... oh. I had no idea that he was only a one term senator (albeit a full term).

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Chafee will announce on June 3:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/lincoln-chafee-2016-presidential-run-118415.html

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Virginia seems like a random place for him to announce. I would have figured he'd do it in RI or maybe NH/IA.

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Classic True Leftist success story. We accomplished nothing, but in doing so we came out the victors!

I probably count as a true leftist, but that statement doesn't make sense. Plus, Bernie has been talking about it long before Warren.