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Thanks Nancy. More good news for John McCain.

Posted by crazycatguy | March 13, 2008 11:38 AM
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Unfortunately, women still have a way to go in this country Nancy. I don't see America electing a two woman ticket for President.

Posted by pragmatic | March 13, 2008 11:41 AM
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Um... I bet both campaigns are courting her.

Posted by Soupytwist | March 13, 2008 11:43 AM
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Fallon?

Posted by seattle98104 | March 13, 2008 11:50 AM
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In order to capture the undecideds and some of those independents, I think both candidates will need a white guy with military/national security bona fides.

Posted by ahava | March 13, 2008 11:51 AM
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More like a nightmare ticket for the Dems. Hitlery has destroyed your party. Blacks will not vote for her and white women & Hispanics won't vote for Bama. hahaha

Posted by McCain/Crist '08! | March 13, 2008 12:00 PM
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Neither candidate can win this race without superdelegates. I bet forcing Obama to give Clinton the veep spot is the only way they will be able to get her to quit, throw all their support to Obama, declare victory and go home. Course, if I had my druthers, the ticket would be the other way around. Obama is just so muslim, black, and inexperienced, ya know?

Posted by fluteprof | March 13, 2008 12:08 PM
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She's correct.

More likely for Sen Obama to choose Dodd or Richardson. Or maybe Edwards. Clinton doesn't add anything to his ticket.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 13, 2008 12:10 PM
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#6, Stats posted before show almost all Hillary supporters would vote for Obama. It's the Obama supporters who won't vote for Hillary -- they prefer McCain.

Posted by Obama/Pelosi '08 | March 13, 2008 12:14 PM
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No, I don't prefer McCain.

I just won't vote for Hillary.

Which is kind of a shame--two months ago I would have.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 13, 2008 12:17 PM
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Presidential candidates typically don't select a VP that could upstage them, so this will never happen, either Mrs. BILL Clinton/Obama or Obama/Mrs. BILL Clinton.

Posted by raindrop | March 13, 2008 12:32 PM
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I'm an Obama supporter, but of course I'd vote for Hillary in the general if it came to that. I'd just walk very, very slowly to my polling place.

Posted by Tina | March 13, 2008 12:36 PM
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hmm should we just toss out various emotive reactions or think this through?

1. no. 1 and no. 2 in the race for the head spot are close, just a few percentage points apart in various yardsticks like delegate count, popular vote, national polls against McCain, etc. Unites party and boosts everyone's energy level to have HRC or Obama as VP.
2. Whatever the animus the candidates or their supporters have for each other, which is particularly noticeable on Slog but isn't really shared across the land, this usually doesn't stop the two strongest candidates in one party from coming together like

JFK and LBJ

or: Reagan-Bush

3. These teams also seem to have multi year benefits for the party: set up the next president for the same party.
JFK-LBJ kept the office in the same party.

Reagan-Bush got the GOP 12 years in the oval office.

Why wouldn't we want to set up 16 years with a dream ticket? With HRC as VP she'd still be viable age wise after 8 years of President Obama

4. All the folks saying "it won't happen" got no proof and are just projecting their own emotions. They spout sillyness like HRC wouldn't take 2d spot or Obama wouldn't take it. Baloney. Once the head of the ticket is chosen and they ask, you comply!

And anyway if you refuse you let some other pol be VP candidate....meaning they get ahead in the power rank and in the likelihood to be pres. next.
Saying no means you might fade into the background for ....16 years.

Oh yes there are good reasons for each of them not to ofrer it to the other, too; and of course either Obama or Clinton as pres. candidate should go thru a careful evaluation process that vets several possible VP candidates. An unvetted person like an Eagleton can be a complete disaster.

remember him? he was when that McGovern campaign started heading down, down, down until it only won what 2 states? or was it just DC and Mass?

We certainly don't want that again.

Posted by unPC | March 13, 2008 12:52 PM
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I don't like the GOP. I'll support whatever tree-hugging, bleading heart, tax and spend liberal we can get.

It won't matter anyway.

Posted by Tax Man | March 13, 2008 12:53 PM
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it's been my belief for a couple months now that Obama should choose either Wesley Clark or Joe Biden, old white men with national security/foreign policy experience, for his first term. next term, choose a proper successor.

Posted by noey | March 13, 2008 1:08 PM
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@15,

Oh, please not Wesley Clark. That man epitomizes everything that's wrong with the term "metrosexual".

Posted by keshmeshi | March 13, 2008 2:15 PM

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