Who will Clinton, Rubio, and Christie take as running mates?

[HAnnA MArin County]

I agree with the person who said that Hillary would choose a VP who endorsed her in 2008. The Clintons are loyalists, as seen in numerous member-member congressional races where Bill always campaigned for and supported the candidate in the race who endorsed his wife in 2008 (perhaps the most notable of which was the Pascrell/Rothman election in New Jersey when Bill campaigned for Pascrell, who endorsed Hillary, over Rothman, who backed Obama. I'm sure he will be back on the campaign trail stumping for Hillary supporter Colleen Hanabusa in Hawaii over Brian Schatz, who was for Obama.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned who I thought were the mostly likely VP candidates: what about Ted Strickland and/or Ed Rendell? Rendell was much more passionate and committed to Hillary, but he would be a good selection. This probably wouldn't affect how well she does in Ohio and Pennsylvania since she's already so popular with white, working class blue collar voters in these two states.

As badly as I'm sure she wants to, I don't foresee her choosing another female. She knows that the ticket will have to be balanced.

I think Hillary will choose someone who has appeal to any of the demographics that she lost to Obama in 2008 (and inevitably 2016). This could include an African American, a more liberal/progressive candidate, or someone younger. I don't think she will pick a Hispanic seeing as how she won their votes 2:1 in 2008. I'd say right now choosing a black candidate would be best in her interest to help turn out the massive Obama coalition of voters that probably won't vote in 2016 without Obama on the ticket. Of course, she's more likely to get a larger chunk of the white vote that could offset any losses in the African American community.

I don't see what ties she has to the South other than Arkansas because she lost all the Southern states in 2008 barring Arkansas and Tennessee (and Kentucky, if you consider it Southern). The Southwest was geographically her strongest region in 2008, thanks to Hispanics/Latinos. She probably also wouldn't choose someone from the Northeast/New England, because as someone else already alluded to on here, voters in Middle America would probably be turned off by a ticket of two New England/Northeast liberals. She'd probably consider a candidate from the Inner Mountain West since this was the area in which she performed the worst, but then again, there aren't many stellar Democratic choices in this area other than Brian Schweitzer. It'd be a good pick, but seeing as how I think Schweitzer was for Obama in 2008, if the Clintons stick to their loyalty card, she may choose someone else.

As for the Republicans, it goes without saying that Christie would need to choose a conservative candidate to turn out the base. I don't really pay attention to Republican politics so I can't really speculate as to whom might be the VP. Of course, he may feel like he should pick a woman to not only balance the ticket but mimic Hillary's likely female-male ticket. He did choose a woman as his Lieutenant Governor, too. I think those two would be key factors in his VP decision making.