Seriously, now: Have you ever met anyone who voted for a presidential candidate because of his running mate?
Comment: Remember this post, because I have info you do not have: The next President of the US will be Barack Obama, and his VP will be former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn.
Comment: If Clinton wins the nomination, her running mate will likely be Bill Richardson.
If Obama, he might offer it to Joe Biden. (If not Biden as VP, at least as Secretary of State.) Kaine would be his best choice among governors, though if he wants someone with executive experience he could always try Michael Bloomberg.
George is right: Romney can go pretty much any way he wants. But I think he'll pick someone who can help him navigate Congress instead of another governor and someone who can help him burnish his credentials with Christions. Sam Brownback has an outside shot there.
Guiliani will almost have to go with a Southerner or Westerner who knows how to get things done in Congress. I think he'll consider McCain or Lamar Alexander, but not an evangelical who would alienate the middle of the electorate.
The VP matters. Cheney, love him or hate him, proves that point, as did Gore (though Gore had to compete with Hillary for attention) to a lesser extent. Most people probably also underestimate the influence that George H.W. Bush had as VP. And a VP perceived as clueless can add to your misery, as Quayle did for the first Bush.
Comment: NEWSWEEK!! Have you no decency? I have subscribed to Newsweek for over 40 years, and have enjoyed it immensely. However, hiring Karl Rove, the "Architect" of an immoral, arrogant, incompetent, and divisive Administration which chooses to deny human rights at home and conduct war-mongering abroad is something I will not condone.
Since we just renewed on 3 December for another year, please refund my full subscription price.
Comment: They really don't get it.... any of them. The majority of Americans aren't an older generation, disconnected, looking for the old bygone days, and easily swayed by phantom promises of a return to such times by disaffected politicians. The vast majority of voting Americans are intelligent, connected, and computer literate independent thinkers who will not be swayed anymore by career, self-serving politicians who don't deliver the goods. These unproductive politicos will either change their courses dramatically and get things done, will resign gracefully (or not), or they will be replaced by honest individuals who truly desire to make America a better place to live.
Comment: Which one of these guys and gals got it right about Iran? none but you still want them and thats strange to me. Who got it right? Yep the only one who did and he's not even mentioned. Boy you got to get with it kids and open your eyes! There is a Revolution going on and your missing it or trying to ignore it, still think he's crazy, a kook, dark horse, no chance? Watch and you will see, Dec 16th 2007 the Boston Tea Party again!
Its not the Vice that maters its the platform!
Comment: How about a woman vice president ?
Comment: Hillary, not Obama, picks Wes Clark. Ater all, Clark has endorsed Hillary. Why would Obama choose someone who endorsed his opponent? Clinton-Clark '08 Has a nice ring, huh?
Comment: We have a better part of a year to go before the general election and Will is thinking about a Vice President. By the time of the election the voter will be so worn out because candidates have been running for two years--they will not care who the VP is. There should be a six month run for the primary and a six month run for the general election.
Comment: Will seems unaware that Hillary is most likely to pick Richardson. He has the requisite lack of firm positions or willingness to reverse them (viz. the 2004 Lieberman), the lack of ethics (Richardson rushing to Monica???s apartment to try to get her to move to NY for a non-job with him, out of the zippergate spotlight), some appeal to Hispanic voters, and popularity in a closely-contested state.
Comment: A good VP choice may not help a ticket much, but a weak VP choice can certainly hurt. Consider Bush Senior in 1988, he could have picked Elizabeth Dole who at the time was popular, well respected, and a marked contrast to the wimpy Ferraro the Democrats offered in '86. Instead he chose the light weight Dan Quayle. In 1992, if Bush could have made Colin Powell his running mate, Bill and Hillary Clinton would just be the answers to trivia questions today.
Comment: Nice description of Ohio!!!
Comment: Nice description of Ohio!!!
Comment: Nice description of Ohio!!!
Comment: Ben young voters aren't the problem for Democrats; they came out to vote by a 30% margin over Republicans in the last election. Getting them to come out to vote in volume is the problem. But Hillary and the Democratic field are certainly not gong to take advice from a previous Bush supporter and now Giuliani convert like George Will on whom to pick for VP. It???s apparently easy to write an article stating the obvious and apply each scenario to the possible choice of picks for VP and then voila you???re a genius.
Comment: For all his systematic ordering of vice presidential running mate strategies --four of them-- forgot to mention perhaps the most important strategy to this race: maximizing voter turnout. His statement that "it would make no sense" for Hillary to select Obama is wrong for this very reason: Obama could conceivably energize the Democractic electorate, specificially rallying a huge number of young voters to come out to vote in the election--a weakness for the Democrats the last few cycles.
Comment: Hillary and Obama would be a bad ticket. A lot of Americans aren't ready for either a Woman or an African American to be elected President. Putting Hillary and Obama together compounds the situation and gives the Republican candidate the election.
Comment: The question in George F. Will's The Last Word: "Have you enver me anyone who voted for a presidential candidate because of his running mate?" reminded my of my late father's choice in 1956. Both my dad and my mom had voted for Eisenhower in 1952, but my father chose not to vote for Eisenhower four years later. His reason was the vice-preseidental candidate, Nixon.
My mother and their friends argued that Nixon was not all that bad. About a decade and half later the Watergate scandal made them all agree that my father had made the correct choice.
Comment: Hillary and Obama would be a bad ticket. A lot of Americans aren't ready for either a Woman or an African American to be elected President. Putting Hillary and Obama together compounds the situation and gives the Republican candidate the election.
Comment: Edwards as VP was a mistake for Kerry. Edwards can't carry the south. Southerners see him as the sleazy ambulance chaser that he his. When you can't help your Presidential running mate carry your home state, city, county, and voting precinct. If the people from your home state who know you, won't vote for you. The rest of America should be finding out why so they don't make a mistake by voting for him for President.
Comment: I'd think if Obama is the nominee he would pick from Virginia and tap it's senator, Jim Webb.
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