re: #84 KGxvi

The thing is, though, a sitting VP is (almost) always the automatic frontrunner when the sitting president is termed out (or possibly declines to seek a second term). The fact that Cheney and Biden have chosen not to run following two terms as VP is actually out of the ordinary (granted, in a very limited sample size).

Nixon runs in 1960 as a sitting VP; Humphrey ran in ‘68 as Johnson’s successor; Mondale ran in 1984 after serving as Carter’s VP; GHW Bush followed Reagan; Gore followed Clinton in 2000.

That’s why party activists care about who the VP nominee is: it serves as a signal of where the party may be going in the future.

This is why I’m still thinking it could be Castro… The Democratic party sent strong signals in 2012 that they want the Castro brothers to have a big part in representing the future of the party. I know he gets knocked for lack of experience, but I just don’t see how Trump can make an argument about lack of experience with a straight face. He’s much more likely to attack Castro’s lack of “Real American-ness” and accuse him of being a Terror Baby.