Who Are the Democratic Rising Stars?

[mim89]

We always hear about how the Republican Party has all these up and coming political stars like Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie etc.



The one most bring up is Elizabeth Warren, but besides her who would you guys say?

Maybe John Hickenlooper, Martin O'Malley and Brian Schweitzer?


A few I thought of that are on the rise, Cory Booker, Gavin Newsom & Kamala Harris.



So who would you guys say?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I think San Antonio, Texas' Mayor Julián Castro is on the rise.

He's not only intelligent, he's also young and popular.

He's a keynote speaker at this years Democratic convention. I think the party may agree with me.

[mim89]

3. Great choice

Yea, I really like him. I saw him on Colbert and he was great.

Only thing that sucks is he's stuck in Texas.

[WI_DEM]

7. He's who I was thinking of, too. I'd like to see him run for Governor or Senate

sometime from Texas.

In 10 years it is very possible that Texas will be a blue or at least a purple state.

[sadbear]

9. Yup.

His twin brother, too.

[mim89]

10. .

I can't wait for the eventual comparisons to Fidel by Republicans when he runs statewide

[flamingdem]

13. +1 viva castro!

[ananda]

14. Don't forget Houston mayor Annise Parker as well.

nt

[leftynyc]

2. Kristin Gillibrand

She's fantastic.

[stuckinodi]

4. Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, Raul Grijalva n/t

[Frustratedlady]

5. Biden's son, for one.

[mim89]

11. damn Mike Castle

He probably would've been in the Senate already if we had known O'Donnell was gonna be their nominee lol

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Castro & Merkley. n/t

[lame54]

8. after reading your repug list...

I hope we don't have any

[Comrade_McKenzie]

12. Keep an eye out for Allison Grimes... KY's new SoS.

She might be running against McConnell in 2014.

[Capt. Obvious]

15. Hopefully Warren pulls it off

otherwise she's dead to the party.