gorkay
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« on: August 13, 2004, 07:16:20 PM » |
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There are a lot of different strategies in choosing a Vice-Presidential candidate. The old ideological ticket-balancing thing has gone out of fashion lately. You'd never see a Roosevelt-Garner or Stevenson-Sparkman ticket today. Geographical ticket-balancing still happens a lot (as it did this year for the Democrats), but the strongest Democratic ticket in recent years featured two Southerners.
Democrats seem to do a little better with their choices than Republicans. I have no idea why. Nixon, Agnew, Quayle, and Cheney have all been viewed as liabilities at times.
The coolest thing a candidate has ever done with the Vice-Presidential pick is throw it open to the convention to decide, as Adlai Stevenson did in 1956.
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