If one of these women from the Senate would run for President in 2020, who'd have your primary vote?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

We have 16 women Democrats in the Senate- obviously I couldn't fit them all on the list. Unlike some other parties I could talk about....

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	The one I didn't list (please respond in the thread)
	0 (0%)
	Kamala Harris
	4 (15%)
	Tammy Duckworth
	0 (0%)
	Elizabeth Warren
	7 (27%)
	Amy Klobuchar
	13 (50%)
	Catherine Cortez Masto
	0 (0%)
	Jeanne Shaheen
	0 (0%)
	Maggie Hassan
	0 (0%)
	Claire McCaskill
	1 (4%)
	Tammy Baldwin
	1 (4%)
	3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[4now]

1. They all sound good to me

It is much too soon to start arguing about primary candidates.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Most of them are too old.

At least Kamala Harris would still be under 60. Everyone else will be much older than that.

I also think that some three years before the next Presidential election we shouldn't be worried about this. Let's get past the mid terms first.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

4. Duckworth is 49

e.t.a. Gillibrand (in case you were wondering) is 51
Kamala Harris is 53
Cortez-Masto is 53
Baldwin is 55

Klobuchar is 57, so she would be just over 60 in 2020
Hassan is 59, so she'd be over 60 in 2020

McCaskill is 64
Warren is 68
Shaheen is 70

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I'm a Baby Boomer myself,

and I do not want to see anyone over the age of 60 running for President in 2020. Which would for me eliminate all but Gillibrand (who'd tainted by her involvement in making Franken resign so I won't be voting for her) Cortez-Masto and Baldwin will be young enough. You and everyone else may disagree.

I also think it's totally stupid to be focussing at this point, some three years before the next Presidential election, on who our candidate will be. Especially as the 2018 mid term ought to be the only thing we are now paying attention to.

But every single election year cycle it's the same thing. Twenty minutes after the results are in, people here start promoting or quizzing as to who the next candidate should be.

I really, really wish people would instead look to the next election instead.

And maybe run for office themselves.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

8. Actually, I'm hoping Tammy Duckworth will run, and she's the youngest of the bunch.

...and it's hardly focusing. It's just wondering what everyone else thinks a year and a month out. But (assuming we continue to have free elections) the 2020 election essentially begins in a year, whether or not one likes that fact,

[Ken Burch]

3. What would the case for Klobuchar be?

She has the lowest national profile of any. Have no idea what she's like as a stump speaker or on television.

Seems good on the issues, but it's weird that her big national issue would be restricting web streaming.

The question her supporters need to answer is this: what is it about her that would outweigh the fact that we'd have to work harder to establish her as a national political presence than any of the others in the poll?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. Off the top of my head

1) She's very popular in her home state
2) She's from the Upper Midwest - a place where the Trump campaign successfully penetrated "the blue wall"
3) She's a former prosecutor - that might be handy in facing this President

I disagree that she has the lowest national profile on my list, but that's subjective .. so

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I think she does have a very low national profile.

I don't see her mentioned except here.

The main reason I'm aware of her is that I used to live in Minnesota and so I tend to pay attention to the politics of that state.

[Ken Burch]

12. Thanks for the info.

I asked what I asked simply because I don't know as much about her as some of the others.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. I'm not really a fan...

But most of the contenders who have national profiles aren't going to be nationally competitive. An inoffensive Midwesterner is our best hope.

[JonLP24]

11. She was in the CNN debate

She is good & warm on television.

[irisblue]

9. No flippin way on Sen Mc Caskill

Too red for me. Smart though, moving Todd Akin out is a happy memory of 2012.

[leftstreet]

13. No senators. No women

I'm sure all the female Senators you've listed would be just fine as Presidents.

But they'll never beat Trump in 2020

It has to be a young relatively unknown male with charisma and an authoritative truth-to-power presence. Bank on it

A governor, or maybe even a new house rep

[Awsi Dooger]

15. I agree with you

Our bench is terrible right now due to weakness in the governorships recently.

If we nominate a female in 2020 she will lose the electoral vote and popular vote. People here are underestimating how much benefit of a doubt Trump will receive. Incumbents whose party has been in power only one term simply do not lose.

To defeat an incumbent like that you need a charismatic ideal nominee.

[susanna]

17. Oddly, to me, all of these posts seem to assume "normal" politics.

We left "normal" a year or so back.

Rethink your baselines.

Just saying.

[CTyankee]

31. HRC won the popular vote. That suggests to me that the right female candidate could

very well, with a good strategy that includes heavy campaigning in the states that Trump won, would probably work. The voters are hating Trump now and that number is growing daily as his sanity is questioned. Maybe some folks didn't know it then but they know it now.

[murielm99]

14. It is too early to begin speculating about 2020.

[LenaBaby61]

26. It is too early to begin speculating about 2020.

THIS ^^^

And especially if/WHEN Mall Rat Moore wins a Senate seat

[SFnomad]

16. omg, seriously ... we haven't even started the 2018 mid-terms season yet. Way. Too. Early. n/t

[Algernon Moncrieff]

19. Never too early

And the 2020 cycle begins in less than one year

[SFnomad]

23. No. It. Does. Not. n/t

[Algernon Moncrieff]

24. Sorry. It does

It's the new reality, no matter how you punctuate.

[SFnomad]

35. No. It. Does. Not. It's only the "new reality" if you allow it.

We talk about how there is too much money in politics and then we have people like you pushing to extend the political season to ridiculous extremes. It wasn't that long ago that the presidential political season was 6-9 months. Then states started one up'ing each other to be earlier in the primary season to have "influence", which pushed it to a year. Last season, it pushed to about 18-24 months, which in itself is ludicrous.

And now you seem to think 36 months is the new normal. Well, if you want money out of politics, you need to push back from it, rather than be an instigator of it.

[LenaBaby61]

27. We haven't even started the 2018 mid-terms season yet. Way. Too. Early.

Assuming our votes COUNT in 2018.

[DFW]

18. Incomplete question

It depends, just like last time, which men are running.

My preference for a presidential candidate is not gender-specific.

[flamingdem]

20. I don't want to vote based on gender

n/t

[Algernon Moncrieff]

21. You apparently missed the word "if" in the OP

[Iggo]

22. The most progressive one of the bunch always gets my primary vote and always will.

[PragmaticLiberal]

25. I voted for Harris but it's a tie between her and Duckworth.

[murielm99]

29. I like Tammy Duckworth

and she is my Senator. But we don't know how she feels about things, and how she will feel by 2020. Her health is always a factor, and we need her quite badly in the Senate.

A lot can happen before 2020.

[CTyankee]

32. Duckworth was born in Thailand.

I love her background and greatly admire her sacrifice in the service. But do we want to a fight on our hands on the issue that she was not born in the U.S.?

[brooklynite]

28. None of them.....

...until I think about the Presidential Election, which I won't do until after the Mid-Term election.

[unblock]

30. not sure, but i'm not thrilled with losing good senators to presidential ambitions.

not that i have anyone in mind, but in terms of general strategy, i'd rather see a governor run.

[Alice11111]

33. !!!

[Algernon Moncrieff]

34. It's hypothetical

My first choice is Tammy Duckworth

My second choice is Jimmy Kimmel ( no - I'm not kidding)

[Bettie]

36. I don't think our candidate has to be a sitting senator

There are a lot of talented, smart people out there, the senate isn't the only place to draw from.