…as the newspaper continues its transparent and disgraceful campaign against Bernie Sanders.   Might one not hope to have a reliably progressive candidate at the helm, unlike in 2016?  Cory Booker isn't that candidate, nor is Kamela Harris, nor Kristin Gillibrand etc.  I will say this:  given the nature of voting behavior (vide Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists), if the nominee is not an African-American, it will be important that the V-P nominee be one.  Depressed turnout among African-American voters in 2016 (compared to when Obama was on the ticket) was one of several clear "but for" causes of Clinton's loss.