[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] who will be McCain's running mate

[Jonathan King]

Answer to Mike's trivia question is: 1952.

The time before that was 1928. And I think it also happened in 1920 and 1908.

jking


On 2/7/08, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > It could turn out that Stephen will get his way and it will be a
> > McCain/Huckabee ticket, but we shall see.  Some say that Huckabee won't
> > help very much because he is most popular in states that McCain will win
> > without him.  Such people say that McCain should choose someone from the
> > upper midwest.  One such possible choice would be Minnesota's governor,
> > Tim Pawlenty.  I think Pawlenty is not good, and it *is* partly his
> > fault that the bridge collapsed (if you think otherwise, believe me,
> > you've been fooled), but the NTSB final report won't come out until
> > after the election. We're having the primary here in St. Paul.
> > Pawlenty is co-chairing McCain's election campaign.
> >
> > That is, I think a McCain/Pawlenty ticket is pretty likely.  I don't
> > think they'd win Minnesota though, especially not against Clinton/Obama
> > (if that comes to be).  Pawlenty is not so popular these days.
>
>
> I just spent 30 mins or so talking with a guy who used to be our state AG
> and whose dad was US VP.  He didn't think Pawlenty would be of much use to
> McCain -- Pawlenty couldn't even win Minnesota for McCain in the primary.
> So if that's the deal, who will McCain pick?  We couldn't come up with any
> convincing ideas but we agree that he'll want to pick someone who appeals
> to the conservative base that McCain is finding hard to attract at this
> time.
>
> By the way, when was the last election year that neither major-party
> candidate was either President, Vice President or former Vice President?
>
> Mike
>
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