The Candidates

Right now the Democrats have the most interesting field of candidates in their history. 

In contested races for the nomination in the past, the only one remotely like this one was when LBJ faced Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in primaries.  

Democrats have several progressives (more or less) in Sanders, Warren and Gabbard. They have a governor devoted to fighting global warming. They have a qualified Latino and a qualified black American. They have a qualified woman of color. They have a qualified centrist white woman and a qualified white center-left woman. They have a former Vice President. They have a young man who is smart, gay, religious and highly educated. They have more. 

Democrats have choices, and in the end they’d better have unity and a candidate with natural appeal to young people, women, people of color and independent thinkers. Someone who can fire up people to get out and vote.