I have not had a strong opinion about this position, and still only have one strong feeling about it — that it should be an organizational position with an interest in building infrastructure and finding good candidates. To that end the speeches by the candidates haven’t intrigued me. But, there is one candidate who may be different enough and capable enough to unite the party (largely by being neither an Obama-Clinton or Sanders person) and help us in the Midwest: Pete Buttigieg of Indiana. www.huffingtonpost.com/...;
He is Harvard educated, mayor of South Bend, young, gay, and very interested in reclaiming the Midwest in concrete terms as well as politically. Think of him as a white Corey Booker.
The Democratic Party voters aren’t really badly split along the Liberal-Establishment divide, but we have lost a lot of voters who supported candidate Obama, but then switched to supporting The Donald. It might be possible for Mr. Buttigieg to reconnect the party to those voters while other more Liberal groups fight to build in the Southern and coastal states (e.g. Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, (maybe even South Carolina).