She may just be president someday!

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Going with the title from that one article which named possible female Presidential candidates.

I'd say the two most likely are:

Kay Hagan
Kirsten Gillibrand

In 2016,2020,2024 the latter dates more for Gillibrand.

Considering she is my Representative, go Gillibrand!

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Paterson will never be President. Gillibrand would have a hell of a time getting through the primaries herself with her current record but she is getting ready to go leftward, so we'll see. She still wouldn't be likely to receive my support under any serious scenario.

According to PC I'm even more left than you. I'm willing to throw out most small details if the candidate is Populist however, which I find Gillibrand to be. I'm simply attracted to populist candidates. A turn leftward would make me like her even more however.

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On another note, why don't more people talk about Susan Collins in 2012? She will be the prime age, she will be an experienced Senator, she is a moderate, she could certainly win Maine + NH.

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On another note, why don't more people talk about Susan Collins in 2012? She will be the prime age, she will be an experienced Senator, she is a moderate, she could certainly win Maine + NH.

Maine of course, but New Hampshire is doubtful.  Those two states would be the only ones she'd have a chance in though; she'd lose everywhere else massively.

We are talking about the primaries, right?

I was actually talking about the GE.

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I was very happy that Gov. Paterson chose to give Gillibrand a chance, and separately, that he did not choose Caroline Kennedy, although I do feel bad for the leaks at the end. I think Caroline will be fine. She is liked, and her reputation will recover.

I have been sobered up on the Gillibrand pick though. She is an outsider to about 50% or more of the Democratic party in New York, and regardless of how much she reaches out, it will in the end be up to the City to decide whether or not they can trust her. She needs to spend a big majority of her time from now on winning the trust of her constituents in the City and its surrounding suburbs, and convincing them that a huge part of her voting record and positions were as her responsibility to represent the views of her more conservative district, and that she will not be the same as Senator. If she cannot win the trust of the City, she will lose. Whether she can do that is not only up to her but up to them. I am wishing her the best, really.

No! NYC always decides these things. I'm so sick of upstate being ignored, which is why I actually support upstate making our own state. I'm happy we finally have an upstater elected to state-wide office.