“I’ve got your back,” she said, almost shouting, “and I’ll do everything I can for you.”

[ProfessorPlum]

11. I also wish she would run

and believe she would win - this country needs another FDR, and no one else on the horizon even comes close, with all due (and vast) respect to Bernie Sanders, who has been fighting the good fight for a long time.

We can't nominate our candidate based on who the GOP hates less - their capacity for hate knows no identity lines (witness their white hot hate for a Southern white Bubba), though of course their racism and misogyny add particular ugliness to their target du jour. If EW became the nominee, the hate would flow.

But she is such a good communicator, and is so clearly equipped to call out injustice for what it is - and to work against it(!) - that I think she represents a rare opportunity for the people to get some actual representation in their government.

And, I worry that her age will make 2016 the last time she can viably run. (Unless we lose and she comes out in 2020).