[quote=poorgradstudent]Ideally she’d want a non-white male from a swing state. The Republicans are unlikely to try to hit Hillary on inexperience (especially if they run Trump) so she’s probably going to either want someone who seems young and fresh and non-white, or maybe go with a Safe White Male.
Unfortunately, the Democratic bench is actually rather thin these days. Not a lot of Blue governors outside of places like California (and she’s not going to pick Moonbeam, even if he wanted the job).
Julian Castro and Tim Kaine seem like reasonable picks.[/quote]
Interesting points, but why would she want a non-white male? I guess maybe to energize voters of whatever race her running mate was and to appeal to progressives in general. But it seems to me she needs to appeal to purple voters more than she needs to energize the base. I could be wrong about that, but it seems the election will be won or lost in states like Ohio and Florida. Some purple voters might be averse to an all non-white-male ticket. Not out loud, of course. But averse nonetheless.
