Word: ticket
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Mondale would also have to calculate gender in relation to geography. Ferraro?ethnic, big-city urban, blue collar&151;appeals to the same sorts of voters that he does, and therefore would not broaden the ticket in the traditional way. Conversely, Ferraro would, in a geographical and ethnic sense, be an ideal partner for Hart...
...over the White House should some disaster or assassin strike. That piety is a useful standard to keep before the eyes of the convention, and in a civics-lesson way, it should be true. But it is mostly nonsense. No presidential nominee wants a cretin or arsonist on his ticket, but otherwise the running mate is chosen, not for sterling presidential qualities, but because he (she) will help ensure victory in November. The exercise is often called ticket balancing. If nominees in elections past have chosen running mates for geographical balance, or ethnic balance, or religious balance, what is wrong...
...vice presidency is such a hypothetical office that it is sometimes difficult to focus on what qualifications the candidate should have. Harry Truman looked unprepossessing when F.D.R. took him onto the ticket in 1944?a little haberdasher from Missouri paired with a giant of the earth. Truman turned into a good President. Spiro Agnew was regarded as a solid, promising Republican moderate, a one-term Governor of Maryland, when Richard Nixon named him to the ticket...
...office of Vice President. William E. Miller, Barry Goldwater's 1964 partner, made a joke of it in an American Express card commercial. Chester A. Arthur had been nothing more than head of the customs house in New York when James Garfield took him onto his ticket. After Garfield's assassination, Arthur made a competent and honest President in a dishonest...
Still, one of the principal objections to putting a woman on the Democratic ticket this summer is that there is no one truly qualified?or, at least, no one better qualified than any number of available men?and that any woman who appears on the ticket will be there only because of her gender. Is that so bad? If Ferraro or Feinstein were a man, it is unlikely that either would be mentioned for the vice presidency. On the other hand, if Lyndon Johnson had come from, say, Rhode Island, instead of from Texas, John Kennedy would never have picked...