Thanks Frank and WE, back to the drawing board. I would love it to be Condi just to see Dem heads a splode but that's not going to happen. I'm not too up on other possibilities for a female Republican VP, I saw there was some talk of Ann Venenman (sp?) for the Dems but that came and went fairly quickly.
Well, there are other factors to consider.
Some thought it was a major strategic blunder on the part of the Impeached One, from Arkansas, to name Alphonse Capote Gore, from Tennessee, both southern states, as his vice-president in 1992, but it worked out.
Geographic balance worked out well for Democrats in 1960 (Kennedy from Massachusetts, Johnson from Texas), but not for Republicans the same year (Nixon from California, Lodge from Massachusetts). And there are other examples, but essentially, most of the time, candidates have striven for geographic balance.
And there is ideological balance, for example, "right-wing" Reagan and moderate Bush in 1980; generally, most of the time, candidates have striven for ideological balance.
And then there are times a candidate feels so confident of winning that he'll just go ahead and name his running mate regardless of geography and ideology. Barry "Goldwater" Obama appears to be deluded enough this way, that the named another extreme left-wing liberal Democrat senator, and one from a very small state that usually votes blue anyway.
