If they want to win and have a shot at legislative control as well as executive control, then I don't think Sanders is their man. Sure, he's a better bet in the Rust Belt seats, but he struggled among black and hispanic voters in the primaries. Maybe the Democrats don't need that coalition to win the White House in four years time, but they need the so called 'Obama Coalition' (white voters in the Rust Belt, high black, hispanic turn-out, millenials) if they're going to take Senate and House seats as well as the Presidency.
I would say have Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker on the ticket, whichever way round you put that team you've got a pair that should excite and reach that 'Obama Coalition' of demographics across the battlegrounds the Democrats need to run. Sanders will be nearing 80 by the time he'd be sworn in (if he ran) and I think he's too close to Warren in terms of appeal and politics, a ticket can't just be two left-wing darlings. Warren is younger and established enough in her own right to run for president. Alternatively you could have either of Sherrod Brown (older, libertarian, populist, not well known nationally) and Kirsten Gillibrand (younger but with limited name recognition) as the VP on with Warren or Booker leading the ticket.
Personally I think a Warren/Booker ticket (either way round) would be a strong card for the Democrats. Run with a slogan like "A New American Dream" or "Renewing the American Dream" to make it clear this is a clean break with the Clintons and the 'Third Way' style politics, which is what Obama's "Change you can believe in" slogan helped to do in 2008. "A New Dream" kind of slogan recalls Roosevelt's New Deal, but represents a more radical kind of optimism than Clinton's "Stronger Together" message, which was safe and bland.
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