future electoral map?

[khirkhib]

I like the idea of a Richardson/Bayh ticket.  Their are a couple other ideas for the second spot.  But the ticket is pretty sound in the areas we would need to win.  From Bush's speach the other day it really looks like Condi is aspiring to higher office and because the Christian Coalition and neocons have control of the party to the point that it is turning against its own in some cases (the whole spechter debacle) that I think one of their own will get the nod.  I think it will be the most agresive of them who has already said that he would like to be president.  The CC won't let Giulliani or Swartzenager get on the ticket.  Swartz because they simply won't change the constitution in the next 4 years.  Giulliani will have really negative advertising against him.  Ala McCain and he would win NH and  lose hard in South Carolina.

So 2008 Richardson/Bayh verses Santorum/Condi what would the map look like.

[khirkhib]

Shut up with the bickering, God.  You guys fuc#ing agree already.  So any body want to opine on what a Richardon?Bayh (or maybe Warner) vs Santorum/Rice race would look like.  There are so many factors.

Santorum is hated by the left almost as much as Bush is.  Rice is a women and black, are there any inroads.
Richardson is hispanic and castro might be dead what would the hispanic vote look like. 
Would white racists sit the election out, go third party.
Bayh and Warner are pretty moderate.  Does that hurt the ticket or make an opening on the left.

What would the map look like.  Would Santorum grab Pennyslvania.  Richardson would nail New Mexico but their is talk that he could grab Coloradio and Nevada and even pull Arizona.  Warner (trends) could deliver Virginia and some people on this site think that Bayh could get away with Indiana (Warner and Virginia is much more likely I think)  What EVs does Rice deliver, would she make the enough enroads wtih female voters in the midwest, Wisconsin and  Minnesota to get those votes.

I think that this would be a very exciting and interesting race and it would really bring up a lot of issues and bring us forward as a nation.

[khirkhib]

Richardson was born in Pasedena California.
His mother Maria Luisa Lopez-Collada is Mexican and his father was from Boston working with Citibank is Mexico.
He was raised in Mexico City and went to High School in Boston.
He wents to Tufts (BA French and Poli Sci) {oh oh he knows French does that hurt his chances} and went on to get his Masters at Tufts Fletcher Schoo and Diplomacy.
After College he worked for the State Department

He moved to New Mexico in 78 and that year lost his first attempt at the house. On his second attempt he won.
He was in the House for NM's 3rd district from 83-97
US ambasador to the UN 97-98
Sec of Energy 98-01  (because of all the intelligence scandels in the Bush admin. I don't think that this will hurt him.  But it was smart to move to govenor)
He got elected Gov. in 02.  So he'll have an election in 06.  No contest.

I just want to see this guy destroy Santorum.  The Democrats need to have candidtaes to represent who we really are not caricatures of what Republicans like to label us.