Why is Kaine considered so likely, a candidate for VP?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Clinton's probably wanting to play it safe, plain and simple.

That just feels like the wrong attitude toward this election. Donald Trump's success partly exists because "playing it safe" is perceived to be what's been happening the past 16 years and what feels like malaise among the general public set in. If there's a time to be bold, it's now.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Clinton's probably wanting to play it safe, plain and simple.

That just feels like the wrong attitude toward this election. Donald Trump's success partly exists because "playing it safe" is perceived to be what's been happening the past 16 years and what feels like malaise among the general public set in. If there's a time to be bold, it's now.

Hillary received far more votes than Trump did.

1. Trump had far more opponents
2. The Democratic race stayed heated much longer than the Republican race

True, but you're missing the point. You can't make broad generalizations about the "mood of the public" based off the <10% of eligible voters that cast a vote for Trump.

Trump is just an example of a wider phenomenon. Remember that 10 years ago the word socialist was anathema to both parties and now voters in one of them wouldn't mind one becoming president. There are tangible changes to the way people feel about how politics should be approached that is taking longer to set in with the political class. Whether its a Tocqueville effect or something else I'm not sure but I'd like to see a wider acknowledgement of that from the Democratic candidate.