Torie
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« on: April 20, 2012, 08:19:03 PM » |
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One thing to bear in mind, is that Veep candidates have far more potential to hurt you then help you. They have all been essentially useless to negative except for:
1. LBJ - he probably carried TX for Kennedy (lots and lots of votes were stolen, but probably not 20,000 of them, or 40,000 if all due to ballot box stuffing), and if Kennedy lost TX, then Illinois with the 8,000 vote margin would have been litigated, and its result may well have been reversed, in which case Kennedy would have lost.
2. Lieberman - he almost carried FL for Gore, or did carry FL for Gore depending on your point of view.
So, making a cautious choice unless your campaign is in irons, is probably the sensible one, which best balances the risk/reward ratio.
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