I think we're really well-positioned

[cilla4progress]

for Warren / Sanders 2020!

[LisaM]

1. You realize that they will be 71 and 79 years old respectively?

They obviously are very vital and I was especially surprised to learn that EW is 67 (I would have easily placed her 10 years or more younger), but that's a pretty old ticket.

[Joe941]

15. Let please keep Ageism out of the discussion.

[LisaM]

19. Oh for heavens' sake.

I just don't see it as a balanced ticket. Anyway, Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat again.

[guillaumeb]

2. I like your thinking, and your positioning.

Assuming you mean POTUS and VP in order of listing.

[pangaia]

3. If I were you I would stop worrying about 2020,

and start worrying about tomorrow and Jan 20, 2017...

There may BE no 2020!!

[Dream Girl]

4. Fuck 2020...what is wrong with folks obsession with the presidency

Are warren and Sanders going to come to the rescue and sprinkle magic fairy dust on everything? Do the mayhem and misery fought by the republicans and Trump. What about local and state elections.? Congress...2018. Sometimes the naïveté is simply astounding.

[cilla4progress]

5. OK, Dream Girl

I'll bite.

1) Looking for something hopeful and positive to look forward to. Not mutually exclusive with attention to present electoral politics.

2) Not said but implied if you have intuition is that these are the national leaders of the Dem party NOW, with statuture to head our ticket in 2020. They will lead our opposition on a federal level to trump NOW.

3) We are all essentially on the same side. I choose to try to be nice.

[EL34x4]

6. No. Too old.

We need fresh faces, younger, with stamina and energy. After Trump, America will have likely soured on Baby Boomer leadership anyways. It's time to pass off the baton to a younger generation.

And this is where losing a thousand seats at the state level is going to bite us in the ass as the GOP fills their ranks with hungry, young lawmakers in their 20s and 30s who are now building the networks and campaign machines they'll use to pursue higher office.

[cilla4progress]

7. I know....

I shudder a little when I hear Schumer talk and make his lame puns. I hope Keith Ellison becomes DNC Chair.

Who do you see as the up and comers in the Dem party?

[MoonRiver]

8. Ridiculous.

We need people no older than 60 to run.

[cilla4progress]

9. It's not just the age of the body that matters!

I hear you, but...do you hear anyone but Bernie challenging our very economic system of capitalism? He successfully rallied millennials around his radical ideologies, specifically, socialism.

Think of Mandela, Gandhi ... it doesn't take youth alone to harness great change.

[MoonRiver]

10. There are many great, and young, potential candidates out there.

Age DOES matter, and I say this as someone who is closer to 70 than 60.

[cilla4progress]

11. Please share!

Interested in who you see on the horizon on the left!

[MoonRiver]

13. Corey Booker, Kristen Gillabrand, and Kamala Harris for starters. eom

[cilla4progress]

17. Yes -

all excellent and on my list as well!

[Joe941]

16. Ageism!

[MoonRiver]

18. Realityism

[LexVegas]

12. Nope. nt

[Persondem]

14. Non-starter. The country just leaned right (or leaned stupid) either way

pedantic lefties are not the answer.

I do want them to be involved in the national conversation pulling things leftward and shining lights on GOP lunacy (witness Sanders yesterday with Trump's medicare/SS tweet), but they are ill suited to winning a national election.

Besides, Democrats have a tough map in 2018; we need focus and energy on those races or we could be looking at another midterm disaster.