ikilledkenny said:
Yes, but no winning tickets have selected VPs with problems that bad. For example- McGovern in 72 with Eagleton (he had to change VP candidates, and he lost HORRIFICALLY to Nixon) Or as you mentioned, Mondale in 84- he was crushed almost as badly if not worse than McGovern. Bush-Quayle only made it through in 88 because of the awful campaign waged by Dukakis. When an able candidate came up, Bush and his less-than-intelligent Veep lost in a landslide. McCain-Palin does not seem likely to reverse this trend. Obama-Biden will reign in November. |
It wasn't Clinton being able that killed Bush it was him raising taxes and then getting a bad case of seafood poisoning at the wrong time.
The Vice President really hasn't been seen as important at all until like... Gore.
Well really when Gore lost.
Dick Cheney is the first VP in a long time to do anything of significance (though unfortunitly not the good kind.)
I mean gore did some stuff but he was less a part of the Clinton Administration then Hillary was. It was really like she was the VP.