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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!

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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CNN has a feature up now detailing the possibilities for both the Republican and Democratic vice presidential candidates. Unsurprisingly, their profiles are vastly inferior to our own. They also make the mistake of including Chuck Hagel. I know the media love the idea of a cross-over ticket, but Obama will pick a Republican as his running mate when hell freezes over. They also include Sam Nunn (Fmr. Sen-GA) on their list despite the fact that Nunn basically left politics in disgust twelve years ago. The MSM can do some really weird things sometime.
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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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Despite recent party bigwigs doing their best to push Clinton out of the party sooner rather than later, I’m thinking this will go through the end of the contests on June 7th. That said, I have little fear that this will actually drag on until the convention in August. Even though Sen. Clinton has stated that she’s willing to go to those lengths, after June 7, one candidate will be ahead in pledged delegates and popular vote. Barring some sort of stunning turnaround, that candidate will be Barack Obama. I just don’t see the superdelegates sitting idly by after that point (as party elders, they know how damaging a contested convention will be), nor do I imagine that Sen. Clinton will be able to hold on to the majority of her current superdelegate supporters.
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Well, it looks like the official campaign to pressure Hillary out of the primary has begun:

* Gov. Dean believes all superdelegates should endorse by July 1st, thus sparing the party of a nasty convention fight.
* Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey endorses Obama, despite originally pledging not to endorse.
* Sen. Chris Dodd calls upon superdelegates to decide the race.
* Patrick Leahy calls on Clinton to drop out.
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