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Hot take: Jacobin is a terrible publication.
Normal take: Jacobin is an amazing publication.
Measured take: Jacobin is a good publication that veers into terminally online takes with a bit to high a frequency.
There is one functional question for a VP pick. Can they give me the state I need?
And Pennsylvania is it folks. Georgia is nice, but not a dependable thing. From the Campaign's POV, if Shapiro can secure Pennsylvania and he doesn't have a literal serial killer body dump in his backyard, they're going to smash that button.
This isn’t how it works anymore; it hasn’t been for like 24 years. There is near-zero home-state advantage in 2024.
Because Michigan and other states don't matter at all. The entire election revolves around who wins Pennsylvania.
A) It's not a given that Shapiro will deliver PA. B) Even if he does, he makes Michigan a loss. C) Bad VP picks lower enthusiasm. Hillary chose to ignore the progressive voters that were energized by Bernie's campaign and instead picked boring centrist Tim Kaine. It turned out to he a bad strategy, even if it did deliver Virginia.
we had this discussion when people said Biden dropping out would mean certain defeat. people are severely underestimating the danger of depressing voter turnout countrywide. this is not much of an issue for the GOP but for Dems it's their main antagonist.
i think they're going to take PA anyway. it's not worth risking losing on other states showing that there's nothing new and everything is actually the same as the democrats you always hated for never listening. Biden dropping out was the first time this image has cracked, mending it right back would be a liability; falling into the Hillary trap there imo.
To be honest, this is why they leak the names early in every campaign. They're running internal polling on them, doing focus groups, and waiting to see if any skeletons toss open a closet door. If there was a red flag in that polling they'd pull him out of consideration.
There's also the art of political theater to consider. Say they did flag Shapiro for exactly the thing you're worried about. They might bring him along to stuff like the meet and greet just to make people in Pennsylvania feel more included.
All this is to say they have a ton more data on this than we do. What little we have shows Kelly and Shapiro as the most well known and liked of the names that were put forward. I have a bit more faith that they're getting good data since they flushed the Biden group out of the campaign. And her campaign is noticeably better run.
i hope so. for me as always it shouldn't matter who it is. you're literally voting against a fascist who proudly announced he wanted to be a dictator, and whose entourage has publicly announced a step by step plan to completely dismantle what little is left of American democracy. the VP could literally be a trashcan and i wouldn't think republicans should be elected.
the VP could literally be a trashcan
We tried that in the UK. He didn't get elected, sadly
it's this kind of anti trashcan political climate that led you down the Brexit path to begin with... too bad you didn't learn from it.
Makes zero difference for me. I'll vote for Harris no matter who the Vice is.
John Cena for VP?
Nobody can see him.
Isnt that Dave Bautista?
Only when he's standing very, very, very still.