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It appears to me that there will be a winner of the GOP primaries this year, without a clear second place finisher. Santorum and Gingrich will be distant placers with fewer than 100 delegates each, and Paul is already too old to be elected, so 2016 will be only the 3rd in 50 years that the party can't look to the second place finisher for their next presumptive nominee. My expectations is that Romney will lose in 2012 to Obama (unless Iran does something stupid).
On the Dem side, Biden will not run again, and I think the same is true for Clinton. Who do people think might be viable candidates to follow Obama in 2016?
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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Who do people think might be viable candidates to follow Obama in 2016? This is where I think that Mr. Obama made a mistake by not making HRC his VP in the first place.
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I'm wanting Elizabeth Warren and/or Kathy Sebelius for the Democratic ticket in 2016.
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A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Elizabeth Warren is likely to win here in Massachusetts. She has to make a national name for herself in the senate and position herself for a presidential bid by 2014.
If Obama wins in 2012 and unemployment is around 6% and, and his radical socialist and secular agenda hasn't led to biblical Armageddon, I think Warren could very well ending up in the running.
Of course she has to want to run. I think she'd make an excellent choice for our first female president as would Kathy Sebelius. Sebelius was considered as a running mate for John Kerry and even Obama. She was named the 11th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
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interesting ... people are already tired of campaigns running longer and starting earlier and now you are asking about a campaign 4 years from now and assuming Pres Obama has already won a re-election
perhaps forward thinking is necessary but i think i will worry about today first
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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It has nothing to do with assuming the President's re-election. The Dems will have to nominate someone.
I'm thinking a Clinton-Warren or Warren-Sebelius ticket. I'm also thinking that 2016 would be a good year for a bipartisan ticket for a third-party devoted to adulterers who cheat on their sick spouses: How about Edwards-Gingrich or Gingrich-Edwards.
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I know this is heresy, but I always thought a Dem-Repub ticket would be interesting.
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I'm also thinking that 2016 would be a good year for a bipartisan ticket for a third-party devoted to adulterers who cheat on their sick spouses: How about Edwards-Gingrich or Gingrich-Edwards. ...or Weiner-Spitzer.  
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