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| Jim Webb announces White House candidacy |
| 2015-07-03 |
| h/t Instapundit Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) has officially entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced on his website Thursday afternoon. Webb, who spent one term in the Senate before retiring in 2013, called for a "fresh approach" to solving the nation's biggest problems and a leader who can stand up to the "shadow elites [of] our political process" in a statement. He faces long odds of defeating favorite Hillary Clinton or usurping Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as her main foil, but has polled ahead of former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley in some recent polls. Am I wrong, or is he the closest thing to normal person within the democratic party? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Focus on Iowa. To win there your supporters have toern be really motivated since voting in the caucus is a 3 to 6 hour process. Bernie's radical supporters seem to have a lot of energy. The teacher's union voters will probably go mostly to Hillary. Other labor union voters are still in play and Webb might gets them. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-07-03 18:29 |
| #7 He is the best thing democrats have. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-07-03 18:17 |
| #6 He has personal courage and is a good writer but to get the dem nomination you must be the best liar and he loses on that. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2015-07-03 16:17 |
| #5 Think "cabinet positions", NoMo. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-07-03 13:23 |
| #4 Thanks to an unnamed Mod of Haze Gray persuasion, I see the name Webb then flash to three adolescent Labrador retrievers in a pirogue. :( |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-03 07:09 |
| #3 John, the low information voters only know what they hear from the MSM. Since the MSM is in full Hillary protection mode, they know nothing about the scandals, Benghazi, etc. All they know is the pseudo populism from her speeches. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-07-03 06:58 |
| #2 It is hard to understand why Hillary, a liar, cheat, Alinskyite, unprosecuted criminal and incompetent has such high pollings. Can someone explain this to me? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-07-03 06:37 |
| #1 Why? No chance of beating her. No chance of moving her to the right even a tiny bit (the power players are boosting Sanders to do the opposite). No chance of affecting the platform or agenda. No chance she'd choose him for VP. No chance he and his family won't be dusted up by Clinton Inc. That he is doing this at all is proof he isn't presidential material, given all of the above. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-07-03 05:45 |