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« on: November 10, 2015, 05:37:19 PM »

Booker or Heinrich surrender a Senate seat to LoBiondo/Whitman and Allen Weh or Heather Wilson, but at least it's not inexperience. If she really wants a minority as Vice President, she should go with Jared Polis, Deval Patrick, or Eric Garcetti.

Eric Garcetti is less inexperienced than Julian Castro? 

Get out, clown.
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2015, 07:35:56 PM »

Yeah, Spanish is a pretty easy language for native English speakers to master.  I don't think Castro would have too much of a problem learning it if he had to.  The bigger problem I think is the fact that he doesn't speak it already, which makes me think that he isn't very close with the predominantly Spanish-speaking recent immigrants. 

That's a pretty big red flag, since these are the voters he's supposed to be mobilizing/attracting by being on the ticket.  If the main reaction of these voters is "Julian Who?", then having him on the ticket for that reason alone probably isn't worth it.  But I think having Castro on the ticket would also generally send a message to the whole electorate (not just Hispanics) that the Democrats are diverse/tolerant/the party of tomorrow.  Hence why he was the keynote speaker at the convention three years ago.
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 01:57:24 AM »

By the way it doesn't matter at all if Castro can speak Spanish. Hispanics who are Spanish monoglots are 1-not voting in wide numbers and 2-The few that are are solid Demm

But I thought the whole point was to mobilize these voters?  lol
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