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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner should challenge Barack Obama in 2012. He should choose John Lynch, the popular and successful Democratic governor of New Hampshire who has recently announced that he will not run for another term, for his vice president. Warner was voted among the country’s best governors in Virginia. He marked a sea change for the Democrats. He was a successful businessman and brought business abilities and strategies to governance. A Connecticut Yankee and Harvard-trained lawyer settled in Virginia, he made himself a Virginian and was the first among the Northerners to pass the NASCAR test. He sponsored a stock car and had the Stanley Brothers of Clinch Mountain play at his events. He marked a new direction and got the support of Markos Moulitsas and the Daily Kos crowd, storied today as the so-called Millennial generation.

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