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Anteaterking posted...

You're mixing approaches here though. It doesn't matter that people in Bernie circles like her, they're already voting for Bernie. You're sort of half-assing "balancing the ticket". Like if you're someone who is legitimately concerned about Bernie's health, why would the VP being a female POC matter to you? Especially one with very little national experience of any sort.

Because it's important that the Democratic ticket is going to be representative not just of the Democratic Party and Bernie's support base, but the country as well!
There also aren't really a lot of white dudes who fit the bill, if we're talking about that.
I suppose how important "balancing the ticket" is(whatever that means) depends on how decisively Bernie wins: it's plausible if he enters a brokered convention he could win by accepting a more establishment VP(Kamala Harris springs to mind). But, ultimately, almost no one cares about who the VP is, unless it's some one as manifestly dumb and unqualified as Sarah Palin(and even then, the object lesson of Dan Quayle suggests that she probably wasn't a big factor!) If Bernie wins decisively, he can have whoever he wants as VP. Personally, I don't think that it will be Nina Turner: I think he'll go with some one with more national political experience and have Nina be his chief of staff or some other important executive role. We'll just have to wait and see.