who do you THINK will be the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee?

[Beet]

Given that Obama is only polling at 61% of Hillary voters, does anyone think that he needs to pick her just to reunite his own party? Plus, she did get about 18 million votes. She's earned the spot. I'm not necessarily endorsing the move but I see the argument. Reagan picked Bush in 1980 even though Bush called his economic plan "voodoo economics".

[JSojourner]

You may be right.  All I know is, if Obama could tap a VP with solid foreign policy credentials, who matched up well with him demographically, and not lose or even put at risk a single Senate seat, then he should do it.  He'll need a strong majority for years to come.

If everything else was equal, then of course he'd make the pick that's marginally electorally safer for the party's margin in the Senate.  But how often is everything else equal?  I just can't imagine that you'll have a situation in which Obama will be choosing between two or more options who are so equal in their appeal that the hypothetical loss of a Senate seat in two years becomes the deciding factor.

True enough, Mord.  And you're right about everything else being equal...even things such as personal chemisty might enter into it.  I mean, it's not a prerequisite that the two candidates like each other, but it's a factor some top of the ticket nominees consider.  Great points, guy.

[Lincoln Republican]

Given that Obama is only polling at 61% of Hillary voters, does anyone think that he needs to pick her just to reunite his own party? Plus, she did get about 18 million votes. She's earned the spot. I'm not necessarily endorsing the move but I see the argument. Reagan picked Bush in 1980 even though Bush called his economic plan "voodoo economics".

We can only hope that Obama does not make Reagan's mistake of negotiating the powers of the Vice Presidency with Hillary Clinton, as Reagan did with Gerald Ford, in a foolish move by Reagan, almost amounting to a co-Presidency, thinking Ford would be the strongest pick, pointing out that Reagan did not understand the constitution.

It was after that that Reagan picked Bush.

[Spaghetti Cat]

Jim Webb, then Joe Biden

[Lunar]

why would Webb do badly with women?

He said a coed military is a horny woman's dream, in a professional essay titled something like (I'm not horribly paraphrasing, it's actually something like this): "Why Women Can't Fight"

[TheresNoMoney]

I would love to get Brian Schwietizer some experience so he can run for president in 2008, but I think he's a highly unlikely choice.

[zombones]

not Hillary

[exopolitician]

What about Brad Henry?