Barack Obama has won the Democratic nomination. I don't think the hardcorest of hardcore Hillary supporters, the kind who take it as a given beyond the slightest doubt that tomorrow morning Hillary Clinton will be endorsed by 400 superdelegates and that Obama will self-destruct when it's revealed he's actually Donald Rumsfeld, still post here anymore, so I figure we won't get too much argument if we state that as a given.
The primary season is all but over, but until running mates are selected it's hard to make the complete transfer to general election season, and we're not getting through that without answering the questions surrounding the possibility that Clinton herself would take that spot. There's a few parts any answer of that question: the question of what she would bring (and take from) a ticket, and whether and why she'd take it in the first place.
You've probably read all this in bits and pieces all over the place, but for my own convenience I'm putting it all in one place so I can look back in a few weeks and either marvel at my remarkable prescience or shame myself at my ineptitude.
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