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he'll need someone to balance the ticket. He's got the young, college educated, upper class wrapped up. He will need a VP that appeals to the older and blue collar types. John Edwards would have been nice.

Most likely it will be a VP Candidate from a traditionally red state.



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Having Clinton as Obama's VP is good and bad.

Good in that all the Clinton supporters will back Obama. Clinton had great turnouts in the "battleground" states, which can help Obama in the general election. But if she is not chosen, not only would he be disadvantaged in that respective, her supporters might vote for McCain, who is catering to their pleas.

Bad in that Republicans HATE CLINTON. Many Republicans might not vote for Obama because they despise Clinton and her healthcare plans. Thus the republicans and some independents will be united against her instead of for McCain.

Personally, Obama should pick a Southern Democrat in a battleground state in order to help balance his ticket. A conservative Democrat would be very nice seeing as Obama is so left.


As for McCain, he should pick someone from the West to help balance the ticket in those states. Maybe a minority. I would love to see Condi Rice or Colin Powell, but I doubt it. Republicans are generally stupid in seeing the importance in a good running mate (see both conservative Bush and Cheney). He should pick someone very conservative to help quell those from the far right about his more moderate views, and he can FINALLY QUIT BEING THE FAKE FAR RIGHT POLITICIAN HE IS PLAYING.

Im voting for the McCain of 2000 and 2004, not the one right now. I hope to god he is just trying to cater to the right-wing instead of changing into a quasi-Bush. Hopefully I am right.



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McCain is playing it all wrong by shoring up his far-right flank. He should revert to his old maverick self soon enough. The far right voters will vote for him no matter what he says or does because they fear Obama enough(for irrational reasons, sure, but the fear is there.) He will begin talking to the great middle again and as long as he doesn't blatantly insult them, the far right will show up. It'll be like Kerry with McCain and the far right: they won't be voting for him as much as they'll be voting against Obama...but they'll be voting and that's all that matters.
He should focus on the voters he doesn't have yet, not the ones who are in the bag.



Starmistkarmic said:
Obama brought in many more voters than Hillary. The man was packing arenas from coast to coast in Democrat leaning states and Republican leaning states. His fundraising alone(nearly $250 million, mostly in small increments) is a reliable gauge as to how many voters are excited about this guy. And recent polls(as of today go to realclearpolitics.com) show him starting to edge upwards against McCain just beyond the margin of error. It's not over till it's over. Talk about who his veep will be are wildly premature. How come no one's interested in who John McCain's veep nominee will be? Watching the media, you'd figure only one person was running.

 Cause McCain is going to pick some boring white guy nobody cares about...

and Obama is the favorite in the race for the presidency. 



Starmistkarmic said:
McCain is playing it all wrong by shoring up his far-right flank. He should revert to his old maverick self soon enough. The far right voters will vote for him no matter what he says or does because they fear Obama enough(for irrational reasons, sure, but the fear is there.) He will begin talking to the great middle again and as long as he doesn't blatantly insult them, the far right will show up. It'll be like Kerry with McCain and the far right: they won't be voting for him as much as they'll be voting against Obama...but they'll be voting and that's all that matters.
He should focus on the voters he doesn't have yet, not the ones who are in the bag.

 Hard to say.  The crazy rightwing super fundementalist righ wing of the republican party feels used because Bush used a lot of code and promised them a lot he never delivered on.  Basically giving them nothing for their vote.

No gay marriage banning ammendment, no abortion ban...

They may just stay home pissed off.   



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PS360ForTheWin said:
why the hell would he pick a VP who spent 6 months insulting him?

 Because this is politics.



He better not pick her.




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This is politics. Whether or not you think Hillary would be good is irrelevant. 18 million voted for her in the primaries. If even a sizable fraction leaves for McCain, that could cost the democrats the White House. And it doesn't matter what the haters think of her; she's not in the presidential race now. What's important is keeping the democratic party unified.



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"All he got was the youth vote who are unreliable when it comes to voting"

Again sterotyping the youth. I bet im more educated than you and im in grade 9. Dont judge me on the way I type.

Obama brought in more voters than Hilary. All those stupid 18 year old college kids voted for him.



Hillary shouldn't even be obama's plumber let alone his vp



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