According to a new poll cited by CNN, a majority of Democrats believe that Barack Obama should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Democrats think Barack Obama should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate, according to a new national poll.Most Democrats think Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, seen in a 2006 photo, should share the ticket.
Fifty-four percent of registered Democrats questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Friday think Obama should name his rival as his running mate; 43 percent disagreed.
The poll is the first national survey conducted since Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, at the end of the primary season. Clinton is expected to announce Saturday that she's suspending her campaign and backing her Senate colleague.
And the article made clear that Barack Obama, who already has strong support from men, would really help his chances in November with women:
Men and women don't see eye-to-eye on the question. Sixty percent of Democratic women said Clinton should be Obama's running mate, but only 46 percent of male Democrats agreed, while 51 percent of them said no." 'What do women want?' Sigmund Freud famously asked," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst. "The answer appears to be Clinton on the ticket. It's pretty clear that many Democratic women are miffed and that Obama has to be very careful how he deals with Sen. Clinton."(snip)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/06/p oll.obama.clinton/index.html#cnnSTCOther 2
If we are to take John Edwards at his word, that he is not interested in the VP slot, then I see no real competition for Senator Clinton. Bayh and Vilsack are one trick ponies (may help Obama win one state). Jim Webb has too much alleged sexism in his past (see for one example the Tailhook scandal) to be picked over Hillary Clinton, given the sexism in this campaign and the hard feelings resulting therefrom. Choosing a woman other than Clinton, would most likely upset Clinton supporters and be seen as a dig at Clinton.
She's got 18,000,000 voters, name recognition, big state carrying potential, and so many other attributes that no other potential running mate has to offer. So what if diehard Republicans that would never ever vote Democratic will refuse to vote for her? So what if racists who will never vote for Obama think she killed Vince Foster? So what if rednecks who think Obama is a secret muslim terrorist, while also being a secret black christian militant, also think Hillary did something wrong during Whitewater?
Lets forget all the people who would never vote for Obama and are turned off by Hillary, and concentrate on those, such as but certainly not limited to independent women, who are hesitant to vote for Obama, but would be pushed to him if Hillary were his running mate.
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