I’m reposting this from a post at TPMCafe. I’ve received a few requests to do a profile of Chris Dodd, but I believe nyg2008 has done an excellent job, and other than breaking down a few demographic categories (which I don’t feel is necessary), I don’t think there’s much more I could add. You can view the rest of our vice presidential profiles here.
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The chattering class has continued to talk about the Democrats relative weakness in comparison to McCain over the last few weeks and months. Some argue that the extended primary season has damaged Barack Obama, and will serve to make this election closer than it would be. But if we look at the way the numbers have moved over the last few months, this reasoning just doesn’t bear out. Let’s take a look at Pollster’s tracking of the general election:
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CNN is reporting that Hillary Clinton will concede the race to Barack Obama today. Technically, she has only said that Obama “has the delegates to secure the nomination,” but I don’t expect she’s playing games here. Let the general election campaign begin!
The title really does says it all. In his most recent column, David Brooks makes it clear that Obama must select an old white man as his VP:
My first thought on the running mate question is that to balance his ticket, Barack Obama should pick a really old white general. Therefore, he should pick Dwight Eisenhower. John McCain, on the other hand, needs to pick someone younger than himself. Therefore, he also should pick Dwight Eisenhower.
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OK, so I lied. Due to overwhelming requests, we’re gonna do one more, Mark Warner. This is the thirteenth entry in our series profiling Barack Obama’s most likely candidates for the vice presidential nomination. Now we’ve got an even baker’s dozen. You can view the rest of our profiles here. If you’ve got a choice that wasn’t profiled, send it in; if it looks good, we’ll post it. Since we’ve added this final profile, we’re going to postpone our final analysis until the weekend. Don’t forget to come join us next week as we make our way through the contenders for cabinet positions. And vote in our poll. It runs through June 4th.
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This is the twelfth and final entry in our series of profiles regarding Barack Obama’s most likely candidates for the vice presidential nomination. You can view our previous entires here. Come back next week as we take a detailed look at the possible candidates for an Obama cabinet. Your favorite candidates that did not appear in our two week long series here, may very well show up in our cabinet profiles. Tomorrow I will boil down all that we have learned and make my predictions. Don’t forget to vote in our poll.
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Our vice presidential profile series has been successful beyond my wildest dreams. The Left Anchor is currently drawing 3,000 hits a day, and will cross the 13,000 lifetime hit threshold later this evening. I thank everyone who has visited the site to look at our VP profiles, and hope you continue to visit. As near as I can tell, there is no site which has bothered to go so deep into the vice presidential candidates.
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This is the ninth entry in our profile series of Barack Obama’s most likely candidates for the VP slot. The previous profiles can be viewed here.
If there’s one thing doing this series of profiles has taught me, it’s that I have been poorly informed about the various options available to Obama. Case in point: Janet Napolitano. I had heard the name before in the context of a possible vice presidential candidate, but she was never among the top few I was considering. But as I’ll demonstrate through the rest of this post, she posts some of the most impressive numbers in the field.
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This is the eleventh in our series of profiles on Barack Obama’s most likely candidates for the vice presidential nomination. You can view our other profiles here.
Brian Schweitzer is among the names mentioned most often as a possibility for the vice presidential slot on an Obama ticket. He was elected governor of Montana, a state slowly trending blue, in 2004 by a margin of four points over his competitor, former Secretary of State Bob Brown.
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This is the eighth entry in our series profiling Barack Obama’s most likely vice presidential candidates. We’ve previously profiled Ted Strickland, John Edwards, Tim Kaine, Kathleen Sebelius, Jim Webb, Wesley Clark, and Ed Rendell. You can view our previous profiles here.
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