Is it Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, or nothing? In Friday’s Daily Comment, on the threat Warren may pose to Clinton in 2016 (inspired by Noam Scheiber’s very good New Republic piece), my colleague Hendrik Hertzberg writes:
A footnote: Hillary Clinton’s prominence points up the remarkable shallowness of the Democratic bench. Whether or not she chooses to run, the supply of plausible alternatives is shockingly thin. The Republicans have an ample roster of men (and only men) who are readily imaginable as nominees, even if thinking about some of them as Presidents (step forward, Ted Cruz) requires thinking about the unthinkable. On the other side, there’s Joe Biden, our septuagenarian Vice-President. There’s Andrew Cuomo—another legacy case. After that, the list drops off rather sharply. Martin O’Malley, governor of Maryland? Sherrod Brown, senator from Ohio? Alec Baldwin? Who else?Continue Reading >>Anyone? The floor is open for nominations.