If you're interested in governing, maybe choose a governor by mattbai
One is Jay Inslee, the second-term governor of Washington, who’s running on a promise to finally deal with climate change. It’s not a terrible plan, although judging from his early interviews, it mostly hinges on using so many platitudes that many Americans who would normally be burning fossil fuels will fall asleep instead.
Forgive me for geeking out a bit here, but the numbers tell an interesting story. For nearly five decades in American life, from the election of John Kennedy in 1960 to Barack Obama’s triumph in 2008, not a single sitting U.S. senator was elected president. During the Reagan and first Bush years, the most captivating Democratic figures were governors like Mario Cuomo, Bob Kerrey, Ann Richards and Bill Clinton. The mere specter of a Cuomo candidacy shaped the presidential field in two consecutive elections, both of which he ultimately sat out.
There are probably a bunch of reasons for this change, but the main one — as with so much else about our governance now, or lack thereof — has to do with the transformation of our politics from a contest of ideas to a kind of unscripted drama.
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