The Case for Picking Tom Vilsack

[Doctor Jack]

CLEVELAND ― Hillary Clinton’s camp is focusing on Tom Vilsack as a potential running mate, but not because he is the former governor of Iowa or the longest-serving secretary of agriculture in half a century.

It’s because Vilsack, in his own mind, remains a son of the place of his birth and upbringing ― Pittsburgh. He maintains close ties there, and is a typically impassioned member of the Pittsburgh diaspora of emigrants created by the collapse of the local steel-based economy in the 1970s.

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Why does any of this matter? Because Republican nominee Donald Trump almost certainly can’t beat Clinton in November without winning Iowa and Pennsylvania.

As the local newspapers in and around Pittsburgh have been noting with pride, Vilsack has “Pittsburgh roots,” a crucial calling card in a city and region where demographic change has been slow and most residents tend to be from families with long local ties.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-tom-vilsack_us_57910f5fe4b0fc06ec5c20b9?section=

[Qutzupalotl]

1. A big strike against him in my book:

He completely caved and fired Shirley Sherrod when Breitbart was pimping the O'Keefe hatchet job on her. Didn't even ask for her explanation.

I want a fighter, not an appeaser.

[Doctor Jack]

2. True but no one is perfect

Hell, Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until the late 90's.