Let's list all the potential candidates for President in 2016

John F Kennedy III said:
Thank you. It'll be interesting to see how much attention Bachmann, Huntsman and Palin get around May-July of 2015.
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Well Huntsman is the only one with a brain out of those 3, but I'm pretty confident in predicting that none of them will win. They would be retreads who lost to the other retread (Romney). Or in Palin's case, who made a fool out of herself on the national stage and lost in a landslide.

I'm not going to lie, it does look like a strong field on the Republican side, which is probably good for us. My guess would be a top tier of something like Rubio, Christie, Rand, and Ryan.

I'm positive Mike Pence wants to run for President at some point, not sure if he would do so quite so soon though. But I'm sure it will be a strong field, and that would be good for Rand because number 1 he'll have to be a better candidate in order to win, and number 2, lower percent of the vote will be required to win the early states.
 
Odin said:
Well Huntsman is the only one with a brain out of those 3, but I'm pretty confident in predicting that none of them will win. They would be retreads who lost to the other retread (Romney). Or in Palin's case, who made a fool out of herself on the national stage and lost in a landslide.

I'm not going to lie, it does look like a strong field on the Republican side, which is probably good for us. My guess would be a top tier of something like Rubio, Christie, Rand, and Ryan.

I'm positive Mike Pence wants to run for President at some point, not sure if he would do so quite so soon though. But I'm sure it will be a strong field, and that would be good for Rand because number 1 he'll have to be a better candidate in order to win, and number 2, lower percent of the vote will be required to win the early states.
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The Republican field is definitely deep. Hey, we have 4 years to find a liberty candidate to run as a Democrat :p

You don't think Ryan will be hurt by Romney's loss? I can see Huntsman doing better than this time, but that isn't saying anything.

I need to research Pence. I've never heard of him.
 
John F Kennedy III said:
The Republican field is definitely deep. Hey, we have 4 years to find a liberty candidate to run as a Democrat :p

You don't think Ryan will be hurt by Romney's loss? I can see Huntsman doing better than this time, but that isn't saying anything.

I need to research Pence. I've never heard of him.
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No I have a feeling Ryan will be viewed as independent from Romney's loss. Personally I don't see Huntsman doing very well but I guess we'll see on that one.

Pence just elected Governor of Indiana. Impressive speaker, sort of reminds me of George Bush 2.0 though, he has sort of similar vocal inflections (similar policies too). 2016 might be too soon but I'm sure he'll run for President at some point.
 
Odin said:
No I have a feeling Ryan will be viewed as independent from Romney's loss. Personally I don't see Huntsman doing very well but I guess we'll see on that one.

Pence just elected Governor of Indiana. Impressive speaker, sort of reminds me of George Bush 2.0 though, he has sort of similar vocal inflections (similar policies too). 2016 might be too soon but I'm sure he'll run for President at some point.
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I'm sure I'll end up moving Ryan to Tier 1 then. Huntsman will possibly have 5-10% higher numbers and MIGHT make it to Super Tuesday. That's all I'm saying :p And even that is only based on a few people speculating he will get a name recognition bump from his 2012 run.

If Pence is George W. 2.0 he could do well. It's sad how many in the GOP think he was a great president. And how long after 2016 will we have to hear about how great Obama was? :(

Well actually, as long as the Dems are going "We should have paid attention to Florida! I can't believe Rand edged Hillary in Florida!" :D

Or less realistic but WAY more awesome:

"We should have paid attention to California! I can't believe Rand edged Hillary in California!"
 
What does everyone think about Condoleeza Rice? I think she may be a bigger factor than some expect. I'm starting to think it'll be considered mandatory, in the arena of public opinion, that both the (D) and (R) tickets have a minority. Even if it's just as VP. I wouldn't be surprised if one ticket ends up being minority Pres and VP.
 
Fun fact: Ted Cruz was born in Canada.

Also it appears Rahm Emmanuel had/has dual citizenship with Israel and served with the Israel Defense Forces in 1991. It is said that this would make ineligible to be President. He was born in Chicago to a non US citizen father.
 
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I'm still not done :p I have about 20 more names written down that I need to research to either add to the list or not.

Feel free to give some input.
 
Al Gore should be tier 1, Bill Richardson should be tier 2, and Mike Huckabee should be tier 1. He is a major threat. Also, isn't Schwarzenegger ineligible to be President...?
 
The Dude said:
Al Gore should be tier 1, Bill Richardson should be tier 2, and Mike Huckabee should be tier 1. He is a major threat. Also, isn't Schwarzenegger ineligible to be President...?
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Interesting. You really think Gore and to a lesser extent Richardson, are threats to win the Dem nod? And Huckabee for the GOP? Can you explain why? I'd love to get as many opinions from you guys as possible :)

Arnold is on the list due to the slim chance of them changing the Constitution for him. His profile has dropped alot since 2004-05 though.
 
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