Welcome back for more veep speculation! As promised yesterday, today we'll be considering the top women possibilities for Obama's v.p. Only two of these candidates, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (KS), who keeps trading the top spot of all candidates back and forth with Sen. Jim Webb (VA) in these threads' polls, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (MO), are regularly in the top 14 candidates overall, but several others are quite qualified and real possibilities.
I'm thinking of running some more "break-out" polls in the coming days, alternating with the top 14 candidates, averaging in each day's votes as we go.
Please discuss any v.p. candidates in the comments. The correct format would be to simply state their name, unless you have further comments, in which case, "I believe ___ ___ should be Obama's v.p. running mate because..." "Oh my God, where's Jane/Johnny Politician?!" would be a bit alarmist, don't you think? I'm sure they're fine. I'm happy to hear all ideas, and of course I'm no official gatekeeper, so play nice.
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My personal favorite running mates for Obama remain Fmr. Sens. Sam Nunn (GA) and John Edwards (NC), and my top woman candidate is Justice (Ret.) Sandra Day O'Connor. I'm convinced the GOP v.p. nominee will be Gov. Mark Sanford (SC).
And, n.b., I won't ever be including Gov. Ed Rendell (PA), largely because of this:
That's some pretty heavy baggage I don't want to see on the news every day until November.
I'm also not including some who might make good choices, but probably not in 2008, though I know some may disagree, notably: Sen. John Kerry (MA), who I like for Secretary of State or Defense or another position, Govs. Christine Gregoire (WA) and Brian Schweitzer (MT), who need to run for reelection and Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA), my senator who I like, while not always agreeing with her on everything, because I feel that ticket would be too easily caricatured as the most liberal ticket in the universe and etc., etc. I know, I shouldn't be influenced by that likelihood, but I think that ticket would have too many liabilities not outweighed by possible electoral strengths. (I think that about some other names I've included anyway, but they've done very well in polling, so that's how they got their pass.) I also haven't included Sen. Evan Bayh (IN) yet, because...zzz...Wha?! What happened? Maybe I'll run him in the poll sometime if I don't fall asleep typing his name....
But now, on to the poll....
Thanks,
Alex
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