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Which one leads the ticket?

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Is a Clinton-Obama superticket in the offing?

Can Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share a presidential ticket together? It's a possibility raised increasingly often by Clinton and her allies in recent days on the campaign trail. Though Obama has a lead in pledged delegates, neither candidate can establish a clear advantage -- and a shared ticket is seen as a possible compromise.

Should Clinton and Obama run together? Which one would lead the ticket?

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Ben likes: Will Obama blink?

Rich Lowry/The Corner

The race will be an absolute toss-up, and super-delegates are going to look for a deal. The obvious one is putting Obama and Clinton on the same ticket. But who goes on top? This is the question that could be a real gut check for Obama. We know Hillary is willing to go all the way to the convention, and if necessary, damage Obama's candidacy with a destructive floor fight.

Would Obama do the same thing? Does he have the same undeniable will to power and the willingness to put aside all considerations of decorum and party interest to fight for the nomination? I doubt it. And I imagine the Hillary people doubt it; they probably think they can stare Obama down in a monumental game of chicken, that ultimately he blinks and takes the number two slot.

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Joel likes: Clinton starts pushing idea of ticket with Obama more seriously

Steve Benen/The Carpetbagger Report

Clinton, especially campaigning in a state in which she’s the underdog, subtly seems to be arguing, “You may like Obama, but if you vote for me, you can get Obama anyway — he’ll be on my ticket.” Indeed, a month ago, longtime Clinton apparatchik Lanny Davis and Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe floated the same idea, rather explicitly. If you like Clinton and Obama, the argument went, the only way to get them both is to vote for Clinton (because she’s more likely to tap him as a running mate than the other way around).

But there’s also the broader context to all of this, which makes Clinton’s comments rather … confusing.

Just over the past four days, Clinton has publicly suggested that John McCain’s experience is preferable to Obama’s, and McCain meets the “Commander in Chief threshold” that Obama does not. They were, at least to me, some of the most disappointing attacks Clinton has made in this entire campaign process.

And yet, interspersed with these criticisms, Clinton is also publicly raising the notion that she’d strongly consider Obama for her ticket. Isn’t there a disconnect here?

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Obama for Hillary's VP?

Submitted on March 23rd, 2008 by Anonymous

I simply can't imagine Obama agreeing to run as Hillary's VP--too much heat has been exchanged between the two, and wouldnit Bill Clinton wind up being Hillary's true advisor and confidante? (The very idea of Bill Clinton running through the White House again fills me with dread--he's done enough to defame that residence!) Obama would simply be another VP with nothing of substance to do (like Harry Truman during Roosevelt's administration).

Hillary's delusions

Submitted on March 11th, 2008 by Anonymous

Amen! She needs to give it up, move aside and let the man who has been repeatedly chosen by the people get on with his race against McCain. The people of the U.S. are ready to give someone with character and integrity a shot at an office that rarely sees either.

Good idea, but can egos be put aside?

Submitted on March 10th, 2008 by Mercyphotography

If this unity ticket doesn't work out, it is likely to be four years of " W Light"... compliment of Mc Cain.

Politics is about strategy and sometime compromises. It is for better or worse about team work.

At 3 AM, when the proverbial call rings on the crisis line, I would not mind having on the (conference) call Hillary, Obama perhaps Bill ( to listen) may be even Allbright and Wesley Clark.

To me it is all about the quality of the team.

Mercyphotography

No Chance

Submitted on March 10th, 2008 by Anonymous

I am not a supporter of any of the Democrat candidates, but having lived through the Clinton years (by the skin of my teeth) you can not count Hillary out. There are still the super delagets. Like it or not Bill still has some weight to throw around, weather it is blackmail or calling in favors to his liberal brothers and sisters of the super delagates.

Face it the people don't have as much of a voice as we think!

no chance

Submitted on March 10th, 2008 by bcsfamily

Hillary's floating this idea because it projects the notion that she's still in the race and can take the high ground of conciliation by reaching out to Obama. It's as ridiculous as if Mike Huckabee had stood on a podium three weeks ago and hinted that McCain joining him as a VP candidate might be a good ticket.

Obama is going to have the majority of delegates, and not enough superdelegates are going to subvert the will of primary voters. He is going to win the nomination, and he doesn't need her to do it. She needs him more than he needs her. What does she bring to his pitch? Nothing. If she somehow steals the nomination, she'll need him on the ticket (but he'd be foolish to accept it). If he wins, he needs a governor on the ticket -- not someone who embodies everythign he's decried on the campaign trail.

So forget this talk of a dream ticket; it's her way of getting to people to think she's still in the race.

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