Reporting Your Thoughts about Presidential Candidates
by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Dear companions,
Here is the list of wished-for presidential candidates suggested by some of our readers. Gives a flavor of our folks — a mixture of practical progressives, wistful transformative progressives, a few out-there figures. Thanks to all who took the trouble to think about this very troubled moment in US history and then to respond or instead to wait for a few more days of history. May the next few months mark as thoughtful a body politick!
Blessings of shalom,
Arthur
Candidates and vote tally
Top candidates
Kamala Harris – 15
Bernie Sanders – 7
Pete Buttigieg – 6
Joe Biden – 5
Gretchen Whitmer – 5
4 votes each:
Liz Cheney
Michelle Obama
Jill Stein
Cornel West
Marianne Williamson
3 votes each:
Cory Booker
Gavin Newsom
Elizabeth Warren
2 votes each:
Hillary Clinton
Heather Cox Richardson
Mark Kelly
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jamie Raskin
Mitt Romney
1 vote each:
Melina Abdullah
Stacey Abrams
Michael Bennet
Michael Bloomberg
Sherrod Brown
Shawn Fein
Chris Hedges
Asa Hutchinson
Jay Inslee
Hakeem Jeffries
Bobby Kennedy
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Amy Klobuchar
Mitch Landrieu
Barbara Lee
Rachel Maddow
Bill McKibben
Barack Obama
Deval Patrick
Kermit Roosevelt III
Josh Shapiro
Jon Stewart
Arthur Waskow
Christine Whitman
ANY qualified woman of color
ANY qualified woman, including trans woman