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...During the election season, the point of a vice presidential running mate is not to set policy, but to increase the presidential candidate’s appeal in a wider election. In this regard, Rice is particularly helpful to Republicans. Rice has strong foreign policy and national security experience, and has never had to place a single vote in the U.S. Senate that would have positioned her opposite the Republican establishment. Consequently, she will appeal to a different Republican demographic than John McCain will. McCain is widely known as a maverick whose votes have not always aligned with most Republicans...
...According to Republican insider Tom Senor, “Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning [to be McCain’s running mate].” While McCain was on the camping trail, The New York Times asked him about this. He claimed that thus far he has “missed those signals” for a McCain/Rice ’08 ticket. But a few minutes later he added, “I think she’s a great American, I think there’s very little that I can say that...
...fight about Florida and Michigan all the way to the convention. But, she has since signaled that she will bow out on Friday. The “struggle” is now shifting to the question of whether Hillary will be chosen as Obama’s running mate. Certainly there are Hillary supporters who are transmuting their ardor for her presidential candidacy into a desire to see her round out the ticket. But Hillary is not trying to “muscle” her way onto the ticket. Surely if she wanted the vice-presidential nomination, endorsing Obama...
...Even more to the point: Obama will choose his running mate on his own terms, and intruding on his decision will only backfire. Is there much prospect for an Obama-Clinton ticket? There are two considerations: How would it affect the election and how would it affect an Obama administration...
...first reaction one hears from many commentators and diehard Obama-ites is that the selection of Hillary would deflate his base and tarnish him with two decades worth of Clinton history. However, if choosing a running mate is all it would take to deflate Obama’s support or image, then he isn’t the successor to JFK and Reagan that so many hope he can be (the two big charisma kings chose the distinctly un-charismatic Lyndon B. Johnson and George H.W. Bush as their running mates...