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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://blog.washingtonpost.com/stumped/2008/05/vp_or_vip.html
| [Need personal advice of a political nature? Or political advice of a personal nature? Send your question to Stumped. Questions may be edited.] Dear Stumped, The presidential nominee isn't necessarily the one who picks the vice president, is he/she? If I recall, wasn't Lyndon B. Johnson sort of forced on John F. Kennedy? Is there a committee of some sort that picks a VP it thinks will "round out" the president? -- Mary Toombs Dear Mary, These days, the selection of the vice presidential candidate is the sole prerogative of a party's presidential nominee -- and that's a good thing. It would be a terrible mistake to go back to the days when the vice presidential selection was not an intensely personal decision by the presidential nominee, which may be why Sen. Edward Kennedy recently sought to quiet talk of forcing a "dream" (whose?!) Obama-Clinton ticket. In the earliest days ... |
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