Opinion of a Gore-Edwards ticket

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In the summer of 2000, a lackluster Gore campaign strongly considered then North Carolina-Sen. John Edwards as Vice President Al Gore's running mate, to give a boost in the polls and to hold on to Clinton-won Southern states from 1992 and 1996.

What would be your thoughts of a Gore-Edwards ticket?

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Freedom Ticket solely by virtue of probably giving Gore at least 538 more votes in Florida.

True.

Edwards probably would have given Cheney or Engler a rougher debate, and AR, MO, and FL probably would have stayed D.

Edwards would have been the clear 2008 frontrunner, but Hillary would be waiting in the wings.

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Gore didn't lose because of Lieberman, so idk if this change would be useful in any way.

According to some, he probably did.

"Gore is more pro-Israel than many Zionists. While Clinton did not feel the necessity to place blacks in visible positions to demonstrate his pro-blackness, Al Gore felt compelled to pick Connecticut's Zionist Senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate in 2000 to prove his pro-Israeli credentials. It was a catastrophic blunder! Many Americans, who would have otherwise voted for Gore, voted for Bush because of Lieberman's championing of Israeli interests over America's, thus turning a potentially comfortable Gore victory into a close election, which the Republicans "stole" for Bush via their cronies on the US Supreme Court."

http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/07/20/d407201502114.htm