Beto O'Rourke's voting record is more conservative than the average Democrat's

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56. IMHO, it's still way too early to decide who the democratic presidential candidate will ...

be/should be at this time.

However, from seeing multiple trends on DU, etc., the gloves are coming off and facts and so forth about each candidate are being provided (voting record, likes and dislikes, conservative or not, etc.). This is healthy and part of the election process. You just have to decide what's important to you, for example, some candidates may not have a voting record that you can compare with others, so one must obtain other qualifying factors to guide them. Most candidates I think have websites or blogs that describe themselves and their feelings on issues.

Facts and one's past may be good guides, but I think that one of the overall requirements is how these (VP too) people/nominees respond to issues and events (such as rump running off his mouth again). Do they have the street smarts to handle rump's bullying? Can they turn rump's pathetic and childish efforts to belittle others totally around to effectively, quickly, and intelligently shut down this piece of garbage?

As we have all clearly seen, running government requires a whole set of skills and talents that our so called president is sorely lacking (unless it comes to scamming others). What really encourages me now is the sheer number of qualified candidates that have appeared on stage. The number of qualified people amazes me and has given me tons of feeling good about the future. Think of the energy in the room if all of these people are let loose against rump and his ilk/cronies? And I don't think all of the candidates have declared yet...we probably have more in the wings that haven't come forth yet, perhaps waiting to see how the 'market' handles the available goods out there now (the existing democratic presidential candidates)...exciting!