How would Neil deGrasse Tyson have done as the nominee?

[Alben Barkley]

No one wants to elect a smug Twitter personality who's made his whole schtick about speaking for "SCIENCE" (despite not being a particularly accomplished scientist) and wearing ridiculous ties.

Also, if he made his platform all about going to Mars, reinvigorating NASA, reviving the Space Age, etc. that would probably flop hard. There are enough concrete problems on Earth for people to worry about. Even if he focused more on improving our science education and such, I just don't see him having broad appeal outside nerdy liberals who already unanimously vote D.

Even Bill Maher would probably do better and that's really saying something.

I maintain that the only liberal media personality who had really strong potential to be a formidable political candidate was Jon Stewart.