Shane Goldmacher

Let's tell you who the person they selected was to tell you why the answer is no. The person they picked is a guy named Ken Martin, who is the chair of the Minnesota State Democratic Party. And he has been in that position for years, and he won the national party chairmanship by coalition building inside the party. The party picked, in a choice of insiders, perhaps the most inside candidate.

Now, he's promising some potential changes, but that is not what he ran on.

Now, he's promising some potential changes, but that is not what he ran on.

I think the history has told us this. The ideas and people who look like they're popping out of this moment prove to be exactly not who ends up being that person. In 2004, the last time Democrats had really lost at this same level, there was a big discussion of should the party again move to the middle and find a moderate white candidate in the era of George W. Bush.

I think the history has told us this. The ideas and people who look like they're popping out of this moment prove to be exactly not who ends up being that person. In 2004, the last time Democrats had really lost at this same level, there was a big discussion of should the party again move to the middle and find a moderate white candidate in the era of George W. Bush.

But by 2008, it was a totally different candidate. It was Barack Obama who came about. I think it's too early to even have a sense of the kind of Democrat who is going to help them get out of the wilderness. But the person needs to inherit a party brand that isn't so broken that you can't run ahead of it enough to win.

But by 2008, it was a totally different candidate. It was Barack Obama who came about. I think it's too early to even have a sense of the kind of Democrat who is going to help them get out of the wilderness. But the person needs to inherit a party brand that isn't so broken that you can't run ahead of it enough to win.

No, I don't. I think it's not central to the party's conversation. She will be, if she chooses to run again, one of multiple candidates. She might start ahead in the polls, but she is one of multiple at this point.

No, I don't. I think it's not central to the party's conversation. She will be, if she chooses to run again, one of multiple candidates. She might start ahead in the polls, but she is one of multiple at this point.

The Democratic Party doesn't typically go back to the well again for a person who's lost before. The Republican Party has this long history of picking somebody who was a nominee or almost was the nominee. Democrats have traditionally won, and Joe Biden is the exception by finding a fresh face.

The Democratic Party doesn't typically go back to the well again for a person who's lost before. The Republican Party has this long history of picking somebody who was a nominee or almost was the nominee. Democrats have traditionally won, and Joe Biden is the exception by finding a fresh face.