Comments on: Why History Suggests Obama Should Face A Primary Challenge

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:08:39 +0000

What about Evan Bayh? He is still holding on to his war chest. He never gave the money to the DNC during the last Governor’s race in IN.

By: kicksotic

kicksotic — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:32:04 +0000

sally wood evans, I mentioned Hillary in my Post! :^) Again, I find it hard to think of any other Democrat with her resume or current popular appeal. If there were to be a serious challenge to Obama, it’d have to come from her.

Off to read Matthew’s new Post re: Nate Silver’s NY Times blathering.

By: sally wood evans

sally wood evans — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:21 +0000

Obviously Hillary…I just didn´t want to be the first one to say it….and then you did. I wish I were a fly on the wall in her private conversations to know if she is even considering it or it´s just my wishful thinking! Very frustrating

By: Matthew Dickinson

Matthew Dickinson — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:30:24 +0000

Marty – Regarding the flagpole: wait until you read my next post responding to Nate Silver. You’ll be saluting for sure….

By: Marty Lapidus

Marty Lapidus — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:07:22 +0000

Professor D refuses to give up on running Mrs. Clinton up the flagpole. Notice her name is missing in the last paragraph of his post. Nice head fake, Matt, but it doesn’t work. I agree that there isn’t a viable challenger.

As for the Mayor, he is a billionaire quasi-Republican/quasi-Democrat who runs off as much as possible in his own airplane to Bermuda. The recent record for NYC Mayors with national ambitions is abysmal–see John V. Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani (neither as rich as the current Mayor (who is?), but both also quai-Republican/Democrats (no matter what Rudy said in his last effort).

As for Chuck Schumer, he is a terrific inside-the-beltway operator and raises tons of money for the Democrats from rich people. Has anyone west of Buffalo or south of the southern tip of the Verrazano Bridge (Staten Island is only consistently Republican borough in the City) know of or care about him? I doubt it.