I don’t see Granholm’s age to be the issue so much as her long absence from elected office.
Granholm served as Governor of Michigan from 2003-2011. Not only did she get elected and re-elected when Bush Jr was POTUS, she left office after the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010. Granholm I don’t see to be battle tested or at least savvy enough in today’s political environment.
If Granholm really wanted to be a Senator, she'd probably have run earlier. Even if you limit it to open seats, she passed up opportunities in 2014 (when her governorship was fresher in peoples' minds, though not always positively) and 2024.
By 2026 it'll have been 20 years since she was last on a ballot, though of course she's done a lot of worthy stuff since leaving office. Fortunately our MI bench is big enough that we aren't reliant on a few stars or past officeholders to win.
I think Granholm may have not wanted to have a political career for the rest of her life. Her actions since she left office as Governor have suggested this although she did speak at the 2012 DNC Convention.
Yes, the bench of choices for Democrats running in the Senate is quite wide.
We have a good bench for 2028 but we need to build our bench for future national tickets. We need to elect senators in purple states that can use their incumbency as an advantage to hold that seat for more than an extra 1-2 terms. There are a bare handful of cases where a freshman senator in their mid 60s or later makes sense.
It's also not universal but younger officials are often far more willing and able to recognize the vileness of the modern republican party and that we need to respond to them more forcefully and more seriously rather than with the same old congeniality of decades past.
Her not having faced voters since 2006 is an equally large issue.
Hopefully not. I like her but she's 65. I would love to give someone like Buttigieg or Gilcrest a shot or some other up and commer like McMorrow
I don’t see Granholm’s age to be the issue so much as her long absence from elected office.
Granholm served as Governor of Michigan from 2003-2011. Not only did she get elected and re-elected when Bush Jr was POTUS, she left office after the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010. Granholm I don’t see to be battle tested or at least savvy enough in today’s political environment.
If Granholm really wanted to be a Senator, she'd probably have run earlier. Even if you limit it to open seats, she passed up opportunities in 2014 (when her governorship was fresher in peoples' minds, though not always positively) and 2024.
By 2026 it'll have been 20 years since she was last on a ballot, though of course she's done a lot of worthy stuff since leaving office. Fortunately our MI bench is big enough that we aren't reliant on a few stars or past officeholders to win.
I think Granholm may have not wanted to have a political career for the rest of her life. Her actions since she left office as Governor have suggested this although she did speak at the 2012 DNC Convention.
Yes, the bench of choices for Democrats running in the Senate is quite wide.
Both are issues IMO.
We have a good bench for 2028 but we need to build our bench for future national tickets. We need to elect senators in purple states that can use their incumbency as an advantage to hold that seat for more than an extra 1-2 terms. There are a bare handful of cases where a freshman senator in their mid 60s or later makes sense.
It's also not universal but younger officials are often far more willing and able to recognize the vileness of the modern republican party and that we need to respond to them more forcefully and more seriously rather than with the same old congeniality of decades past.
Her not having faced voters since 2006 is an equally large issue.