Clinton’s decision to run with Virginia senator (and former governor) Tim Kaine might not have been all that complicated. She likes him, she’s comfortable with him, she thinks he would be a good governing partner; and maybe she feels that she can pick who she wants to pick–that she doesn’t need a veep who will electrify single women or Hispanics or the Left, and doesn’t need to fear left-wing desertions over Kaine’s occasional heterodoxies.
It seems like a politically complacent choice, in other words. Trump’s speech also struck me as complacent, as I wrote last night. The conventional wisdom and most of the polls have suggested that one of these complacencies is more justified than the other.
Elevating Kaine