1) He is intensely unlikeable, even in his own party.
2) Highly publicized problems with unions. They'll take revenge.
3) Americans don't elect mayors president. Not sure why, but we don't.
Deval Patrick is a child. He was basically a front man for the Democrats in the Mass Legislature.
I guess you could say something similar about the incumbent, but Deval doesn't have the kind of machine that got behind Obama.
Obama lite doesn't look like a winning recipe for 2016.
Cory Booker -- likewise too inexperienced -- and unmarried (and kind of a child himself).
I wouldn't write off White guys like Schweitzer or chicks like Gillibrand.
Probably Julian Castro is too young and only a mayor and with a name like Castro, he'll have a lot of explaining to do, but the country might relish having a twin in the White House.
At the very least, the jokes that couldn't be avoided might lead to a rebirth of political satire.
I think your comments are astute.
However after Nov 2012 I’ve decided Axlegrease, Gibbs, and Plouffy could elect Charles Manson POTUS if they wanted to.
Perhaps that’s too despairing of an attitude.