Mitch Daniels (gives Indiana)
If Indiana is in any way in question for the Republicans, then the GOP has lost. Indiana is about R+4.
He can't win his own state if he goes Hard Right. The VP candidate is worth about a 5% overall swing at the most.
Bob McDonnell has become a whack-job right-winger after running as a moderate. "Confederate heritage" isn't popular north of a line from Charlotte NC, Nashville TN, and Springfield MO or west of a line from about Tulsa to Houston. He could push the Dakotas, Kansas, and Nebraska at-large to President Obama. A Rasmussen poll of Virginia will probably question his approval rating in Virginia, and if it has dipped below 50% in a short time, he won't make it. Virginia has lots of blacks and heavily-educated white people who won't vote for a right-wing whack job.
OK.
