Tag: Vice President

The Making of a Vice Presidential Candidate

Filed in Delaware, National by on October 21, 2008 7 Comments

Ryan Lizza has a long piece in this week’s New Yorker reporting on how Biden got picked and why. Let us know what you think.

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McCain’s Campaign Manager Doesn’t Think Palin Has National Security Credentials

Filed in National by on September 2, 2008 29 Comments

“[Sarah Palin is] going to learn national security at the foot of the master for the next four years, and most doctors think that he’ll be around at least that long,” said Charlie Black, one of Mr. McCain’s top advisers, making light of concerns about Mr. McCain’s health, which Mr. McCain’s doctors reported as excellent […]

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Right Wing Evangelicals Tell McCain Not to Go There

Filed in National by on July 30, 2008 7 Comments

They don’t want him to pick Romney as VP. According to the article: They say Mr. Romney lacks trust on issues such as outlawing abortion and opposing same-sex marriage and because he is a Mormon. Opposition is particularly powerful among those who supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this […]

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Campaigning for Vice President Biden

Filed in National by on July 6, 2008 11 Comments

Two weeks ago, on Face the Nation, Joe Biden tells the world he’d say Yes if asked by Barack Obama to be his VP: “If the presidential nominee thought I could help him win, am I going to say to the first African-American candidate about to make history in the world that, ‘No, I will […]

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