The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination began at 11:30 PM, November 8th<\/sup>, 2016 when the networks projected that Donald Trump would carry the state of Florida. Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and New Hampshire were all still too close to call. Hillary Clinton was not going to be President, and one has to wonder what was going through the minds of Democratic governors, senators, congresspersons, and business leaders across America. At first maybe there was anguish over the loss, but there must\u2019ve been a bitter-sweetness to it all. Dozens of Democrats had been sidelined by Hillary Clinton in 2016, and expected to wait until 2024 before looking at the White House. But now President Trump provided them an opportunity that another President Clinton couldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n A previous article mentioned 44 possible democratic contenders<\/a> for 2020, but if that number sounds ridiculously large to you, that\u2019s because it is. If you recall in 2016, at one point there were 17 candidates vying for the GOP nomination, but sources listed up to 55 possible candidates. Of course, all of those people didn\u2019t run, but even if they did, just because a candidate runs does not mean they\u2019re likely to secure the nomination. George Pataki, was never going to win<\/a> the Republican nomination. As for the Democratic side, something tells me people were not exactly fired up<\/a> about Lincoln Chafee.<\/p>\n In a previous piece we devised a metric for measuring not necessarily who is the Democratic front runner, but who in a vacuum should have a better than average chance of being nominated. Listed below are the seven most likely Democrats to be nominated, not according to any particular poll or bias of mine, but according to their scores. I don\u2019t agree with a few potential candidates who have earned top spots, but I\u2019ll explain their attributes and potential weaknesses nonetheless. You can find my article explaining these scores here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some articles have suggested that there are front-runners: Bernie Sanders<\/a>, Cory Booker<\/a>, Joe Biden<\/a>, and others<\/a>. But I\u2019m not so sure there is a front runner at the moment, it\u2019s important to remember we are as close to the first debates of 2019 as we were to the debates of 2015. This time last cycle, the conventional wisdom was that Chris Christie and Jeb Bush were the GOP frontrunners. So, with that in mind, take my estimations and of others with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n Notable Absences & Discrepancies<\/strong><\/p>\n The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination began at 11:30 PM, November 8th, 2016 when the networks projected that Donald Trump would carry the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":37688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2119,2953,3027,2634,1575,16,573],"tags":[20,3059,3060],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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