Reply #62: I am an Edwards supporter, but in hindsight, I agree! [View All]

[elsiesummers]

Gephardt would have brought the Kerry states plus Missouri and Iowa and maybe Ohio - so a win.

Gore could have run a completely different campaign - a grudge match - and definitely would have passed on the National Security test since he was VP and had already passed the National Security test. He might have won. I don't know if he would have won because the campaign would have been so different and because I had some real problems with his gentlemanly campaign in 2000 - but I think he had a real shot.

You are right about 2004.

2008 may be an entirely different matter. I'm left thinking that geography, like the kind that Gephardt brings to the table, is the real answer. We just need one or two red states to put us over the top.

Perhaps John Breaux with Lousisiana or Evan Bayh with Indiana, or Mark Warner with VA... We need geography on our side. (No the DLC type Democrats are not my first choice but I'm being pragmatic about geography).