Harris’s VP pick
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Supposedly it’s looking like it’s down to Shapiro and Walz. I’m more than fine with Kelly not getting it, as removing a popular senator from a purple state seat is something that has so much going against it that it would take some really extraordinary evidence to qualify it as a good idea.
As to Shapiro v. Walz, I’m pretty torn myself. Walz it seems to me is clearly the superior pick in terms of the ratio of enthusiasm v. dissent that he’s going to generate nationally, with the only consideration cutting the other way is the extent to which Shapiro’s popularity can help win Pennsylvania. But that of course is a massively important consideration, since Pennsylvania is likely to be the single most important swing state.
So I see this as an extremely tough call, but push comes to shove I guess I’m hoping for Walz. I really didn’t like the way Shapiro handled the Liz Magill situation at Penn, although it was probably smart politics.
And Mark Penn arguing for Shapiro . . . you can’t get a worse recommendation than that. But memories of Gore passing over Bob Graham for Holy Joe Lieberman still haunt the party and the nation 24 years later . . . So I would be fine with Shapiro if it comes to it.