Why are there so many hints that Klobuchar is considering running in 2016?

[question everything]

In this week TIME magazine, there is a list of "hopeful candidates" already visiting Iowa, mostly Republicans: Rubio, Cruz, Paul, Jindal, Ryan.. and two Democrats: Biden and Klobuchar.

While hardly comparable to Bachmann, I think that she will end up being a joke, just like... Bachmann.

Being nice and working hard for your constituents - all (almost) six million of them - does not a good president make.

[elleng]

1. If she is 'hardly comparable to Bachmann,'

why do you compare her with Bachmann?

[question everything]

3. Comparable in ending up being a joke, an footnote in a campaing

with a pathetic belief that being a neighbor means something.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I think she is angling for the #2 spot on the ticket.

She doesn't have the national name recognition or the experience (or the money) to compete with somebody like Clinton or Biden, and I'm sure she knows it. But the #2 position is wide open...