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Is the choice of running-mate significant?

Is the choice of running-mate significant?. Yes. Tickets will need balance. Yes. Cheney provided experience and gravitas to the Bush 2000 campaign. Yes. Biden provided experience, foreign policy expertise and working-class roots to Obama 2008. Yes.

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Is the choice of running-mate significant?

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  1. Is the choice of running-mate significant?

  2. Yes • Tickets will need balance

  3. Yes • Cheney provided experience and gravitas to the Bush 2000 campaign

  4. Yes • Biden provided experience, foreign policy expertise and working-class roots to Obama 2008

  5. Yes • Burst of excitement to the ticket, at least temporarily providing bounce

  6. Yes • Can help to firm up the base

  7. Yes • Help in a key state

  8. Yes • Help in a whole region

  9. On the other hand … • Not chosen recently for geographic gain

  10. Yes • Major decision – window into how he would govern

  11. Yes • VP can go on to play a significant role

  12. No • The choice is not a game-changer. The choice for voters is between Obama and Romney

  13. No • Often the VP goes on to be an irrelevant player in the governing game

  14. No • VP debate is usually a dull stalemate • 2012 may be an exception: • US Vice Presidential debate 2012 highlights – YouTube

  15. No • Bush won in spite of Quayle

  16. No • Biden may have helped Obama but Palin may have damaged McCain less than conventional wisdom: other factors were more important.

  17. No • That’s the key point: other factors are much more important

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