Latest Speculation: Obama/Clinton Ticket

[fightindonkey]

I'm seeing this again. Would this work? Do they hate each other too much, or just doing what they need to do? This match-up has been around since the beginning, and is now being referenced, yet again. I just don't know. If the atmosphere of now, is the atmosphere in July, they could win easily together. The Republicans are just that done. What are your feelings on this? The more these two are pinned together, battling each other, the more this ticket is going to be reported on.

[AllegroRondo]

1. Personally, I dont think so

but I could see Obama asking Clinton to be Sec of State.

[texastoast]

10. He'd be smarter to pick Bill Richardson n/t

[AllegroRondo]

15. good call.

[BOSSHOG]

13. Which Clinton?

[undeterred]

17. ..

:rofl:

[bigscott]

2. IMHO

never happen. She would not take the #2 position

[Kittycat]

3. No. BO/JE Yes - anything HRC, no. eom

[ShortnFiery]

4. In a word: No.

But a Obama/Edwards ticket would be golden. :-)

[bdamomma]

12. would Edwards want to be second again?

[Zueda]

5. Never. Too many dislike Clinton. nt

[demnan]

6. No

just No. You guys just got me to accept Obama, but this is just crazy.

[bdamomma]

14. yea, me too, we have got a long way to go.

why are we calling this??? anything could happen.

[Mutineer]

7. Will Never Happen

Clinton could never, ever, in a million years swallow her pride to run as a VP, and if she did, if I were BO, I'd make damn sure I never turned my back on her-she'd probably kill him herself to get to the Pres Office.

[calico1]

8. She would never accept the VP position.

She's better off staying in the Senate.

[Taverner]

9. If Clinton could swallow her pride for a moment, its possible

[HeraldSquare212]

11. I don't think they would want to bring her negatives on board

usually with a Veep you're looking to gain a little more support but at least not lose any. They'd probably prefer someone about whom people don't have strong opinions.

[HamdenRice]

16. Oh puhleez! Obama-Edwards or Edwards-Obama...

would be fantastic -- either one!

Obama-Clinton would be :puke: -- well half :puke:

No More Bushes and No More Clintons in, near, around, or in the vicinity of the White House.

[mmonk]

18. I don't think so.

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Barack really needs someone with foreign policy experience. Joe Biden? Bill Richardson? Hillary is

certainly well known around the world, so she could be an asset I suppose. We shall see soon enough. I think a Obama/Clinton ticket would rock, but would Hillary want to be VP? I dunno.

[undeterred]

20. Obama-Daschle

I love Tom Daschle and he is a good friend and supporter of Obamas. I think he'd be a great VP.

[ieoeja]

21. My prediction: super-delegates pick someone from Florida.

Obama is going to win 80+% of the primaries, but not with 50% in many of them. I expect the average vote and delegate allocation will be 45-35-20 for Obama-Clinton-Other (mostly Edwards).

Without the super-delegates this would mean a brokered convention. The super-delegates will come down heavily on the side of the overall winner to ensure this does not happen.

But not without first extracting as many promises as possible: support for pet projects, control over the party platform, and possibly the VP pick.

I actually think the VP pick is the least likely demand. I think they are more likely to say, "let the man pick his own #2". But let me have some fun with this.

Given the incredible ability nationally prominent politicians have to always be a decade behind the world outside the beltway, they will look at the 2000 election and convince themselves Florida is an important must-win and can-win. Florida is almost unique in bucking the national trend towards the Democratic Party as they recently became an all-GOP run state. But that is too recent a happening for the super-delegates to notice.

So they will probably pick Nelson from Florida. Nevermind Nelson and his fellow Floridian Democrats are the reason Florida has turned solidly red. "Democrats suck! Vote Democrat" is not a very inspiring campaign slogan after all.

And this will, of course, give Republicans an automatic pick-up in the Senate. But then our Senators were stupid enough to pick a majority leader from a red state making it impossible for the majority leader to push the Democratic agenda. So it doesn't much matter. Contrast that with the Republicans who selected all their leaders the past couple decades from Texas, Mississippi or Alabama.

[ieoeja]

22. My choice: someone from Michigan.

Repair some of the damage done by the Michigan state party.