Opposing party: Who's nomination do you fear the most?

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Electabilty: Cuomo and Clinton
Ideology: Warren and O'Malley

[Maxwell]

Electabilty: Cuomo and Clinton
Ideology: Warren and O'Malley

I'm curious... what is it about O'Malley's ideology (but isn't associated with Clinton or Cuomo) that scares you?

It isn't necessarily the same as Warren, its kind of opposite reasons. Warren is representitive of someone who I wholeheartedly disagree with on economic policy, and someone who doesn't seem really concerned about the major infraction on our civil liberties and would probably continue in that direction. On the other hand, O'Mally doesn't scare me, he's kind of in the Biden league of being wrong on most issues and willing to go along with bi-partisanship no matter what, especially when it leads to devastating things.

[Maxwell]

Huntsman is the dark horse for the GOP; Jeb Bush might be the sleeper in the pack, then it is Ryan, followed by Rubio, Christie, Jindal and Martinez in that order.
On the Democrats side, it has to be Hillary, my feeling is, that she won't run, mostly due to concerns over Bill's health; her decision will cost Cuomo, who will be playing catch up with Biden and O'Malley, who will have advantages in fund-raising and organization, but you can't discount Warner, Patrick (if he's not Attorney General) or even Rahm Emanuel.
It's early days yet

Rahm Emanuel?

A lot of liberals I know would DESTROY Emanuel. I would be shocked if Rahm Emanuel were even competitive, much less the nominee.

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I really fear Hillary, both for her ability to win and what she'd do in office. I'd probably fear President Warren too, if she wasn't unelectable.

How are you an independent? You sound like a right-wing extremist...or worse, a Libertarian...

he's too left-wing for libertarians, too right-wing to be a democrat.

[Maxwell]

Electability:
Chris Christie
Jon Huntsman
Brian Sandoval
Susana Martinez
Kelly Ayotte (she's a woman, all you need in a general)
Jeb Bush
Mitch Daniels
Mike Pence
Bob McDonnell

Ideology:
John Thune
Ted Cruz
Scott frickin' Brown
Kelly Ayotte (Neo-Con and her voice pisses me off)
Rand Paul
Marco Rubio
Bobby Jindal
Bob McDonnell(Pretty Conservative on Social Issues)
Paul Ryan
John Kasich

I'm not a big Scott Brown fan, but why Scott Brown ideologically? Isn't he pretty moderate?

I totally agree on Ayotte, by the way.

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Does anyone care that Christie was a Bush appointed US Attorney? It's not like he was in his cabinet.

Yeah, no one except us political junkies will even know about it, much less care.

My point is that there are other political junkies who would be paid a lot of money to make sure the voters are aware of it and make out a case why it's bad for them.

Well also not everyone from the Bush Administration is bad (See: Mitch Daniels, Pre-Bush Tom Ridge), just most of them.

[Maxwell]

Electability: Chris Christie, Jon Huntsman
Ideologically: Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman ideologically? What am I missing here?

Probably because the libertarians here kind of like him.