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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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I’ve been posting a lot about Claire McCaskill — freshman Senator from Missouri, prominent Barack Obama supporter — and there’s been a lot of buzz about her being in the VP sweepstakes. I’ll continue to post things that I read about her since I’m pretty proud to have her representing me, but I do’t expect her to be the VP nominee.
Let me explain why. First, there’s the unknown about who would replace her in the Senate. Unless Jay Nixon is elected governor this fall (and McCaskill waits until after January 12th to resign her Senate seat), Missouri will have a Republican governor who will be able to appoint a replacement who will serve until 2013. The Senate’s balance of power is too important to put in play on something like this. Further, while McCaskill has been a hugely effective advocate for Obama, she hasn’t yet been in the Senate two years and her claim to fame prior to that was serving as the State Auditor in Missouri. If you can knock Obama for a lack of experience, you can doubly do so to Claire McCaskill.
That said, what do I expect of Claire McCaskill come January 20, 2009? Well, first and foremost, as one of the articles I linked to earlier said, “[n]obody got more national television exposure, or used it more effectively to advocate for Obama, than McCaskill.” I think that aside from Barack Obama himself, no one in the Senate will have benefitted as much from this campaign as Claire McCaskill. Next Janaury, despite having been in office just two years, McCaskill will be a nationally recognized figure in the party and there will be a president in the White House who owes her a favor.
Posted by on 14 June 2008 at 11:44 AM
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