How Would You Feel If the Above Poster Was Your Running Mate?

[We Live in Black and White]

She'd undoubtedly be on my hypothetical shortlist anyway, so hell yes.

[YE]

Pretty good as long as he didn’t randomly lose his temper.

[T'Chenka]

Not bad, not great. Overall a good choice but not progressive enough and not as anti-establishment anti-corruption anti-oligarchy as I would prefer.

[S019]

It could work, but we're probably too ideologically far apart, maybe could help with progressives though, not thrilled, but not totally upset either.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Two New Jersey residents on the same ticket probably wouldn't be a good idea.

If either of us were to change our addresses though, I think he's sufficiently moderate enough to make up for any of the areas where I might be too far left for a national electorate.

[Gracile]

Seems okay from an ideological perspective, but probably not ideal strategically as he doesn't represent an electorally relevant state and doesn't really bring any new voters to the table that wouldn't vote for me to begin with.

[West_Midlander]

Oh, I misinterpreted and thought I would be his running mate, anyway, I would be glad to have him on the ticket (or to be his running mate, instead). Gracile is easy to get along with and as a fellow Bernie supporter, I imagine we would have an Obama-Biden-like relationship as P-VP even though I am more moderate than him.

[S019]

It could work, but we're both very moderate, so it runs the risk of alienating progressives, the race probably ends up as us doing a bit worse that Gore/Lieberman in 2000, with a Nader type candidate taking even more of the vote than in IRL, not ideal for that reason, maybe they'd help in NC, but not worth it on balance as some of the base is very likely to go Green in this scenario.

[PSOL]

It would be chaotic working together due to differing views

[T'Chenka]

He's a very good fit and I'd be proud to have him.

[😥]

We are different ideologically, but he would help greatly with young and progressives, so we would win election. Good ticket

[West_Midlander]

I think we would make a good ticket. While our ideology isn't totally the same and I'm pro-gun, our political matrix scores are pretty close and in the same quadrant and we look up to/support some of (but not all of) the same politicians (ex. LBJ, FDR, Kaptur, Peterson, Gore, etc).

[Orwell]

I think he is a protectionist so that's scary, but like Obama and Coburn we could still be friendly.

[Badger]

I think he is a protectionist so that's scary, but like Obama and Coburn we could still be friendly.

Enthused. He would make a great attack dog on the campaign Trail too.

[TDAS04]

Pretty good.  He’s like-minded politically, plus:

He would make a great attack dog on the campaign Trail too.

[KaiserDave]

Reliable ideological partner

[West_Midlander]

Reliable ideological partner and KaiserDave can probably reassure the base to some extent

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

RIP NC's electoral votes. And good luck turning out the base with someone bought and paid for by big centrist.

[KaiserDave]

Pivoting the left, may or may not be smart depending on the primary

[Sestak]

somewhat more moderate than me, might be a decent pick though.

[S019]

Helps appeal to the left wing, so that's a positive, might turn off swing voters, though

[😥]

Will help with support from establishment, socially liberal Democrats, but our ticket will lose some left-wing voters. Anyway, great ticket

[Orwell]

We have some pretty major ideologically disagreements (mainly Socially) however I think as long as he would be on the bottom of the ticket he wouldn't dampen turnout too much. He'll add some credibility among pro-life voters and probably help with rural areas across the nation, I think it would be a positive and he seems like a generally nice and thoughtful guy so I would think it would go well.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I think he and I would make a good team. We'd get along well enough and there'd also be regional balance (South vs Midwest).

[KaiserDave]

I think this could work, a unique team ready to do some problem solving