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Do VPs mean more this time?

Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
edited September 2008 in A Moving Train
We have one candidate that is the first black candidate to receive a presidential nomination. There's already been one assassination attempt thwarted.


We have another candidate that is much older and more prone to health concerns.


So my question is this...

Do the VP picks mean more than usual this time around? Are people going to take them more seriously than the past and think about the future with possibility of the vice president becoming president? Or does it still mean nothing...and the choice is still just a quick way to gain some votes?
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  • NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
    The latter. Although I agree this has been a "historic" or memorable election season, the VP selections haven't changed that much. Obama people were still going to vote for Obama, McCain people were still going to vote McCain. It sounds like a lot of moderates still don't know which way they want to go for whatever reason.
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  • jhinkle1114jhinkle1114 Posts: 207
    It won't have a deciding impact, but I do think more people who are on the fence will give it some thought this time around for the reasons you list.

    But at the end of the day for informed swing voters it will come down to issues and to the uniformed it will just come down to whoever they like more by election day--who's soundbytes impressed them the most, who said something they liked on a hot button issue right before the election etc.
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    Let's readdress this question if 72-year-old McCain, who has cancer, becomes president. If you don't think this decision is important, you are crazy. The vice president becomes the president upon the death of a president. I don't understand how people can say it's not that big of an issue.
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  • jhinkle1114jhinkle1114 Posts: 207
    meistereder wrote:
    Let's readdress this question if 72-year-old McCain, who has cancer, becomes president. If you don't think this decision is important, you are crazy. The vice president becomes the president upon the death of a president. I don't understand how people can say it's not that big of an issue.

    It should be a huge issue.

    But facts show that choice of VP has little impact on presidential campaigns in the past.

    It should matter even more than usual this time, but I don't think it will. Most people are uninformed voters who just vote the party line every election and pay little attention to the candidates stances, much less the VPs stances and qualifications.
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