Do Vibes Rule Politics?

Tim Walz seems like a football coach and a veteran you'd like to have a beer with. Does anything else matter?

My column for The Hill this past Wednesday was about why I thought it was a mistake for Kamala Harris to select Wisconsin Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate instead of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

I listed my reasons (among them, Shapiro is the governor of an important swing state), but—as is always the case when you’re writing a 750-word column—yo…