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**KukkoDrukko** · 08-12-2012, 12:08 AM

The chance of a negative effect is much greater than the positives, but overall, I don't think anyone can point out a VP pick that lost, or won, a modern election.

I'll give it the old college try. Lodge, '60: a halfhearted campaigner who went rogue on racial issues, unilaterally deciding Nixon would be an integrationist candidate (Southern white voters were less than pleased). Nixon, furious, had to rein him in and re-burnish the ticket's impressive racist credentials (Southern black voters were less than pleased). They ended up losing four southern states, worth 53 electoral votes, by two points or less (including Texas, even though LBJ had supposedly "balanced" the Kennedy ticket).

There have been far worse running mates since then—Eagleton (grand prize), Ferraro, Stockdale, Palin—but they were all on tickets that would have lost anyway.

08-12-2012, 12:08 AM	#32
KukkoDrukko Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	The chance of a negative effect is much greater than the positives, but overall, I don't think anyone can point out a VP pick that lost, or won, a modern election. I'll give it the old college try. Lodge, '60: a halfhearted campaigner who went rogue on racial issues, unilaterally deciding Nixon would be an integrationist candidate (Southern white voters were less than pleased). Nixon, furious, had to rein him in and re-burnish the ticket's impressive racist credentials (Southern black voters were less than pleased). They ended up losing four southern states, worth 53 electoral votes, by two points or less (including Texas, even though LBJ had supposedly "balanced" the Kennedy ticket). There have been far worse running mates since then—Eagleton (grand prize), Ferraro, Stockdale, Palin—but they were all on tickets that would have lost anyway.
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