Current ticket predictions?

[BaconBacon96]

Clinton/Bullock vs. Bush/Cotton.

[Mr. Illini]

Clinton/Warner vs. Bush/Martinez

[Flake]

Clinton/Klobuchar vs. Paul/Ayotte

[Mr. Illini]

Clinton/Klobuchar vs. Paul/Ayotte

Sorry for off-topic, but when did you go Green?

[Suburbia]

Democratic:

Hillary Clinton / Michael Bennet
Hillary Clinton / Cory Booker
Hillary Clinton / Martin Heinrich
Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine
Hillary Clinton / Mark Warner

Republican:

Jeb Bush / Kelly Ayotte
Jeb Bush / Mitch Daniels
Jeb Bush / Bill Frist
Jeb Bush / Bobby Jindal
Jeb Bush / Ron Johnson
Jeb Bush / John Kasich
Jeb Bush / Mike Leavitt
Jeb Bush / Gale Norton
Jeb Bush / Tim Pawlenty
Jeb Bush / Rob Portman
Jeb Bush / Tom Ridge
Jeb Bush / Brian Sandoval
Jeb Bush / Rick Snyder
Jeb Bush / John Thune
Scott Walker / Kelly Ayotte
Scott Walker / Deb Fischer
Scott Walker / Bobby Jindal
Scott Walker / Ron Johnson
Scott Walker / John Kasich
Scott Walker / Tim Pawlenty
Scott Walker / Rob Portman
Scott Walker / Marco Rubio
Scott Walker / Brian Sandoval
Scott Walker / Tim Scott
Scott Walker / Rick Snyder
Scott Walker / John Thune

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Evan Bayh's a Governor now? And Indiana's now a swing state? Wow, you learn something new every day.

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Susana Martinez is not interested, and why Sandoval? He's Pro Choice.

He was before he became a Senator.

Yeah, in the '80s.

I agree. A Walker/Pawlenty ,Walker/Portman, or Walker/Thune ticket would be formidable, four classic Midwesterners, they are the safest, experienced, low-risk, do-no-harm, ready on day one, but uninspiring. But uninspiring may be better for the GOP.

[Flake]

Clinton/Klobuchar vs. Paul/Ayotte

Sorry for off-topic, but when did you go Green?

Um... I think a month ago?

[Liberalrocks]

Hillary Clinton / Martin Heinrich

[WillTheMormon]

Hillary Clinton / Mark Warner vs. Rand Paul / Kelly Ayotte. Got a good feeling about this.

[RosettaStoned]

 Clinton/McAuliffe vs. Bush/Martinez.

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

Clinton/Warner vs. Walker/Martinez seems likely to me.

[TarHeelDem]

Clinton/Bennet or Booker or Castro or Gillibrand vs. Walker or Bush or Paul or Ryan/Martinez. Gonna go with Clinton/Bennet vs. Walker/Martinez. But maybe we are set for a 1992 blood match after all?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Clinton/Patrick vs. Bush/Martinez

[Mister Mets]

Paul/ Ayotte seems to be a popular pick. I don't see that happening given Ayotte's hawkish views on foreign policy. If Paul needs to give a sop to the establishment, it probably won't be with McCain and Graham's new buddy.

[Potatoe]

Guys, Martinez ain't going to run in 2016.

[NewYorkExpress]

Hillary Clinton/Xavier Beccera OR  Hillary Clinton/ Charlie Crist (If Crist is elected Governor again this year)

Without Clinton

Kirsten Gillibrand/Sherrod Brown OR Heidi Heitkamp/Bill De Blasio

Republicans

Chris Christie/Tom Cotton
Kelly Ayotte/Tom Cotton
Chris Christie/Kelly Ayotte
Ted Cruz/Kelly Ayotte

[Hamster]

Hillary Clinton/Martin O'Malley vs. Paul Ryan/John Kasich

[Mister Mets]

Hillary Clinton/Xavier Beccera OR  Hillary Clinton/ Charlie Crist (If Crist is elected Governor again this year)

Without Clinton

Kirsten Gillibrand/Sherrod Brown OR Heidi Heitkamp/Bill De Blasio

Republicans

Chris Christie/Tom Cotton
Kelly Ayotte/Tom Cotton
Chris Christie/Kelly Ayotte
Ted Cruz/Kelly Ayotte

You seem to be bullish on the idea of a New Yorker on a natonal ticket.

Heitkamp is an intriguing pick since she's a first-term Senator from a very small state. Granted someone effective enough in small rooms to get North Dakota to vote for a Democrat is probably going to impress people in Iowa and New Hampshire, but I'm unaware of her making any moves to raise her national profile which seems necessary at this point.

Cotton doesn't seem to be the likeliest pick for Veep since we don't yet know how much he'll win by in a state that has become very Republican lately. While he has obvious strengths (young, impressive academic and military record) he has plenty of disadvantages (Arkansas is not a swing state, Four years total congressional experience in 2016, no executive experience, white male southerner in party that needs to expand.)

[AelroseB]

My ticket predictions:

Democrats: Hillary Clinton/Brian Schweitzer


Republicans: Scott Walker/Brian Sandoval

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Clinton/Mark Warner v Jeb/Susana Martinez would be the best choices

[SWE]

My ticket predictions:

Democrats: Hillary Clinton/Brian Schweitzer

The Clintons have always rewarded loyalty. There's no way Hillary would pick Schweitzer

[Suburbia]

If a dark horse VP contender is needed for the Democrats:
Hillary Clinton/Dick Gephardt (Missouri's electoral votes may be needed, and Gephardt is vastly experienced, although the lobbying baggage may linger)

[BaconBacon96]

If a dark horse VP contender is needed for the Democrats:
Hillary Clinton/Dick Gephardt (Missouri's electoral votes may be needed, and Gephardt is vastly experienced, although the lobbying baggage may linger)

No. A 75-year-old former Missouri congressman who's been out of politics for a decade will not be the VP candidate.

[shanephenry]

Seems to me like on the Republican side Sen. Ayotte would be such a ticket balancer it'd be hard to ignore.  Her McCain/Graham connection gives her some hawkish foreign policy bona fides and gender balance for the GOP will be more important then regional balance.

I would say she'd be a bone to throw to the establishment wing, but the establishment wing of the GOP always gets their man nominated so that won't be necessary.  The one man who is working hard to run and win over the establishment will be happy to have her on the ticket to nullify the gender wars motif of the last few years.  Sure she's hawkish and he's not but her job is to be his VP, not campaign on her own views.

Rand Paul/Kelly Ayotte

Hilary will have to have a white male counterpart, I think America is ready to elect a black guy or a woman but probably not both at the same time. So Sen. Booker and Gov. Patrick are out as well as Sen's Warren, Gillibrand and Klobuchar.  Furthermore although Hilary is universally known and defined I think she'll look to have someone who is 'outside the beltway' to in some small way balance her 'insiders insider' persona.

McAuliffe is just too well known as a Clintonista to get serious consideration and let's be honest I don't think he has popularity in Virginia to significantly swing the vote there (unless she's running against Uncle Kenny Cuchinelli). So I think we take a long look at the west and realize Gov. Bullock is probably the right guy, unless she grabs Sen. Bennett but I think he looks kind of like a wuss.  Hilary won't have no wuss on her ticket.  Bullock was a former Attorney General, you need that kind of muscle.

HRC/Bullock

[TomC]

Bush/Martinez and Clinton/Kaine

[Bojack Horseman]

Clinton/Beshear vs.  Cruz/Rubio