Yep. Obama never elevated anyone but himself.

Top 3 candidates for 2020 have a combined age that is above 200 years.

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I don't blame Obama entirely, but he mucked up a big opportunity in 2008.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I do because he never wanted to work with other Dems either. His inner circle consisted of politicians from the Machine.

He squandered a golden opportunity. He had both houses at the start of his Presidency.

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Oh, this country doesn't even know what the far left is. Bernie Sanders and his New Deal progressivism is unremarkable anywhere but right here and right now. Acceptable political thought shouldn't end at "ruthless capitalism and warmongering but also gay pride parades."

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Trump winning opens the possibility of literally anyone being qualified in Americans eyes.

Really, what would be so different between Trump and a Kardashian if office?

Jesse Ventura in 2020!

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

It has to be the worst kept secret that Zuckerberg is eyeing a run right? I mean his 50 states thing?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

So he is? I didn't know if that was just white supremacist fear-mongering.

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He's tweeting pics of tenderloins!

Actually, I've read theories that as head of product he is just touring the nation to connect with Facebook users for ideas on the future.

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Freedom is our Strength.

It surprised me that not too many of the far left people I knew were actually for Sanders. Social class is the gigantic blind spot in American life. Not saying it is intentional, but still, what a cultural coup.

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I don't think that is true. Some of his proposals do exist in other countries but his entire platform would have been fairly extreme just about anywhere especially without the limits that other countries put on things like free tuition.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Very interesting question....they have to focus on the electoral votes to win, meaning it can't be someone too far left.
I don't know much about Tulsi Gabbard, but from the limited info I've read, they'd be smart to start building her up. Something tells me, though, the far left has way too much influence and they'll go that route....and lose.

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Gabbard is a little hard to classify. She's got some far left cred for speaking out against the DNC and resigning from the vice chair to endorse Sanders as well as her tepid at best endorsement of HRC after Sanders lost. That said, it doesn't seem like she passes enough purity tests to get full support from some of the far left, and the more establishment types are blackballing her because they don't consider her party loyal. Some have even called for her to be primaried in 2018.

If by some miracle she got through the democratic primary, I think she stands the best chance of pulling in some independents, libertarians, and maybe some anti-trump republicans...at least more than anyone else the dems would put out there. I'm an admitted Gabbard fanboy, though.

Jacobin came out really strong against Tulsi, using the same "____ is not your friend" title that Tim Baffoe uses. One of the biggest complaints on the left is that she supports Narendra Modi and his ruling party in India, which is hostile to Muslims.

1) what the mainstream American public knows and feels about Indian politics can be written on a postage stamp with room to spare, myself emphatically included

2) Indian Americans themselves really seem to like Modi and the BJP

3) when everyone finds out the guy wants to beat back the caliphate, they will say, "oh, that's a good thing"

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