Who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama?

[Maro]

Don't know if this was already covered here, but I'm curious what you think who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama if he wins in democratic primaries...

Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton or someone else?

[jrnyman28]

I thought Janet Napolitano was the lead singer of Concrete Blonde!

[Maro]

I thought Janet Napolitano was the lead singer of Concrete Blonde!

Nope, that singer is Johnette Napolitano.

Janet Napolitano is the current governor of the U.S. state of Arizona. In November 2005, Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in the U.S. In February 2006, Napolitano was named by The White House Project as one of "8 in '08", a group of eight female politicians who could possibly run and/or be elected president in 2008.

Kathleen Sebelius, who is current governor of the U.S. state of Kansas, was also one of Time magazine's five best governors in 2005. and also one of "8 in '08" by The White House Project.

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

Very likely to be Kathleen Sibelius. Obama wont pick Hillary, theres bad blood brewing between em. Given Sibelius response to the state of the Union address - scripted to the word to match Obama's message- I d say shes up there high on Obama's list.

aint gonna help him carry Kansas though!

[lights1961]

Don't know if this was already covered here, but I'm curious what you think who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama if he wins in democratic primaries...

Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton or someone else?

please pick daschle. that ticket would put everyone to sleep

MCCIAN should try for Powell or Condi as his VP..


Rick

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

Don't know if this was already covered here, but I'm curious what you think who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama if he wins in democratic primaries...

Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton or someone else?

please pick daschle. that ticket would put everyone to sleep

MCCIAN should try for Powell or Condi as his VP..


Rick

or J.C Watts

[scarygirl]

Jesus. That way we can satisfy the conservatives.

[Maro]

I forgot to put couple of other interesting candidates in my poll - Brian Schweitzer, Jim Webb, Mark Warner...

[dcvader]

Both are a complete joke IMO. Here is the bumper sticker.

[belar]

I have to believe that Obama (or Hillary, for that matter) would pick a white male as their running mate, to counter some of the negativity they face due to their race/gender.

[Maro]

I have to believe that Obama (or Hillary, for that matter) would pick a white male as their running mate, to counter some of the negativity they face due to their race/gender.

Somehow I think that Obama would benefit the most if he would pick white female to retake most of Hillary's female supporters who might be very dissapointed if she loose in primaries. Sebelius or Napolitano would be great choices.
Other interesting approach would be to take Richardson to increase support among Hispanic community, but that might alienate some white voters (two mixed-race candidates on the same bill).

[Arkansas]

Don't know if this was already covered here, but I'm curious what you think who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama if he wins in democratic primaries...

Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton or someone else?

please pick daschle. that ticket would put everyone to sleep

MCCIAN should try for Powell or Condi as his VP..


Rick

or J.C Watts

Watch for Haley Barbour.


later~

[lights1961]

if obama wins hillary could change parties and join MCCAIN ticket... that would fly huh??? HAHA. ;-D

[Maro]

if obama wins hillary could change parties and join MCCAIN ticket... that would fly huh??? HAHA. ;-D

Doubtful... She was recently producing as much bad blood between her and McCain as she was previously between her and Obama, before it started to backfire.

[Shadowsong]

A hungry croc!

Bye bye
Barack Consolo Osama

[Voyager]

My first thought was John Edwards because John has a lot of name recognition and popularity. I then thought about Bill Richardson, thinking that would help Obama get the Latino votes. But I also think strongly about Tom Daschle, wo is national co-chairman of Obama's campaign. Obama and Daschle have a great friendship. Daschle has carefully maintained his mailing list of 85,000 donors, and he is renting it to only one candidate – Obama. Daschle is incredibly well-liked by Democrats. He really doesn’t have any enemies in the party.

Here is some info on Tom Daschle from Wikipedia for anyone who may be interested:

In 1978, Daschle was elected to the United States House of Representatives, winning the race by a margin of 110 votes, following a recount, out of more than 129,000 votes cast. Daschle served four terms in the House of Representatives and quickly became a part of the Democratic leadership.

In 1986, Daschle was elected to the Senate in a close victory over incumbent Republican James Abdnor, becoming the nation's 1,776th senator. In his first year, he was appointed to the powerful Senate Finance Committee, an unusual honor for a freshman. In 1988, then-Senate Democratic Leader George J. Mitchell named Daschle the first-ever co-chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, making him the first South Dakotan ever to hold a Senate leadership position.

To enhance his state's economy, Daschle also became the first U.S. Senator to hire a full-time economic development director. He was also one of the first members of the U.S. Congress to establish a toll-free telephone line that connects South Dakotans to his Washington, DC office.

In U.S. Senate election, 1992 and U.S. Senate election, 1998, South Dakotans re-elected Daschle to the Senate by overwhelming margins. In 1994, he was chosen by his colleagues to succeed the retiring Senator George Mitchell as Democratic Leader. In the history of the Senate, only Lyndon B. Johnson had served fewer years before being elected to lead his party. In addition to the Leader's post, Daschle also served as a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. In past Congresses, he has served on the Veterans, Indian Affairs, Finance and Ethics Committees.

During his brief stint as the 20th Senate Majority Leader, he became part of the phenomena in which a new congress takes office before a new presidential administration. From January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, Daschle became Senate Majority Leader for the first time. The Senate was evenly divided with 50 members from each major party, but Vice President of the United States Al Gore acted in his constitutional capacity as ex officio President of the Senate, and used his tie-breaking vote to give the Democrats the majority in that chamber. Upon the swearing-in of the George W. Bush Administration on January 20, 2001, Dick Cheney became Vice President and the Democrats returned to being in the minority and Daschle reverted to being Senate Minority Leader.

However, when Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced in May 2001 that he was leaving the Republican caucus to become an independent and would caucus with the Democrats, this returned control of the body to the Democrats and Daschle again became Majority Leader.

Democratic losses in the November 2002 elections returned them to the minority in the Senate in January 2003 and Daschle reverted to being Minority Leader once again.

[Voyager]

Somehow I think that Obama would benefit the most if he would pick white female to retake most of Hillary's female supporters who might be very dissapointed if she loose in primaries.

[conversationpc]

There's no way in hell I'll be voting for Obama, but the one person on that list I would hope he wouldn't pick would be Tom Daschle. Can't stand that guy. It was a happy day when that dude was defeated in his last bid for Congress.

[mikemarrs]

Don't know if this was already covered here, but I'm curious what you think who'd be the best running mate for Barack Obama if he wins in democratic primaries...

Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton or someone else?

please pick daschle. that ticket would put everyone to sleep

MCCIAN should try for Powell or Condi as his VP..


Rick

or J.C Watts

Watch for Haley Barbour.


later~

no way in hell obama would pick haley barbour.i could be wrong but i seriously doubt it.

[ohsherrie]

I can't really vote in the pole. I think Hillary would be far the best, but I don't think she wants that. John Edwards is the only other one on your list that I like, but I'd prefer Joe Biden over him.