he would be a fantastic president.
Agreed. He's actually the dem candidate that I have been most excited about in my lifetime. But he is probably close to unelectable. Too aloof and intellectual. In 2004 I thought he absolutely wiped the floor with Bush in all three debates. To this day I cannot believe that any impartial observer can even regard any of those thee debates as even semiclose. Yet, the polls said otherwise and Kerry lost to the worst president in US history.
We have a politician in Denmark who was once the leader of the Social Democrats (2002-05) and extremely respected by everyone, yet he also proved to be utterly unelectable.