WI Oprah wanted to be President

Which would be the best year?

Would she have sought the Den nomination, ran as an independent or decided I want to unify the US and sought both?

Would she have had a chance?
 
I don't think the internal rot was quite far enough in the Democratic Party before HRC's lost last year for someone as politically detached as Oprah to break through. It was barely enough in the 2000s for Obama to beat Clinton, and Obama was a sitting Senator--albeit one who ran against factional and partisan gridlock and degeneration (the magic of Obama in 2008 is that he was a not-particularly-ideological, non-factional politician yet keep the left behind him with his Iraq War opposition, he could thus be taken seriously as a rebuke of the Bush years and of the DLC and Dean-Edwards-PDA factional tug of war).
 
or decided I want to unify the US and sought both?

I'm not sure what you mean by this... she can't run as the Democratic nominee and as an independent.

She wouldn't have ran in 2016 (she and Hillary are too close) and before that, "the rules" of running for president meant that she - as a celebrity with no political experience at all - would never have gotten the Dem nomination, and any third party run would, at best, end up like Ross Perot's.

If she has presidential ambitions, 2020 is going to be her best bet; running as the anti-He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-Outside-Of-Chat.
 
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