Biden informs Sanders he is starting VP vetting

[Bucky]

50. I supported Warren all the way to the bitter end. However...

I don't think picking her would help Biden very much with his demographic appeal. He does well among female voters and among the well-educated. His weak spot is youth turnout. He needs someone who can bring out the millennials and the X'ers.

If he's really serious about fixing the mess in Washington, he needs someone with outsider cred too. I'd prefer Ayanna Pressley. She has some downsides, like she's a first-term congresswoman (so maybe too much an outsider) and from Massachusetts--a region we don't have to worry about.

On the other hand, I can only think of one VP nominee in the last 40 years who has a claim to helping the ticket with geographic appeal. It's a thing people say, but there's zero evidence that it works that way. The far more important challenge is activating and expanding the base of core voters. She will do both of those as a Justice Democrat and as a 40 something woman of color. And more importantly, her experience in politics runs deep, she's connected to the Kennedy family and has plenty of grassroots experience in running a district office that helped implement Federal support policies for individual citizens. She knows how government we can work for community, and more importantly, she's seeing how it can be managed poorly.