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Tony 1355 Wrote: Jul 18, 2012 3:18 AM

President Obama's charismatic personality may have won him the election in '08, but there's no way he can win this November. Mitt could choose Daffy Duck as his VP, and still take it by a landslide. The independents are sick of all the rhetoric, and will vote for change. Period.

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Is Mitt Serious About Condi?

The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president.

Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure running mates. Do they bring something to the table? Can they help with a critical voting bloc? Can they bring a crucial state?

Lyndon Johnson is regarded as a brilliant choice by JFK, though his brother Bobby, among others in the Kennedy camp, loathed LBJ. LBJ locked up Texas and helped bring home five other former Confederate states for the Roman Catholic nominee from Boston.

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