Kennedy, from Massachusetts, picked Lyndon Johnson of Texas as a running mate to win southern votes.
That the President told someone he believes Mitt Romney wants to pick General Petraeus as a running mate.
While it energized conservatives, McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate may have alienated moderate Republicans like Powell, Wall said.
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His prospective presence in the White House is often cited as a reason for Barack Obama not to pick Senator Clinton as a running mate.
It is difficult for a candidate to pick someone as a running mate who is far to the right but still maintains credibility with centrist voters.
Frequently, well-known Republicans appear on Fischer's show, including Newt Gingrich, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whom Mitt Romney is considering as a running mate.
The prospect of Clinton joining the ticket as a running mate remains the subject of much speculation, even as some said they believe the odds of Obama choosing her may have diminished in recent weeks.
Marco Rubio, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate, to draft a Republican version of the DREAM Act.
There is even talk that Mr Romney might bolster his standing among Latinos by picking one as a running-mate Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, say, or Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.
In fact, Senator McCain was asked if he would consider Lieberman as a possible running mate.
Huntsman has a warm relationship with McCain and has been mentioned as a possible running mate.
He was mentioned as a potential running mate in Bob Dole's 1996 campaign and in George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.
He was tapped the following year as energy secretary, and was mentioned as a possible running mate for then-Vice President Al Gore.
He may also have softened the feminist vote by choosing as a running-mate Florida's secretary of state, Sandra Mortham, who favours choice on abortion.
As speculation builds that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney has his eye on the charismatic 40-year-old Cuban-American as a possible running mate, political observers want to learn everything they can about him.
The trap he fell into in 1994 (albeit of his own making) was in enabling his Democratic opponents to portray him as an ultra-conservative, in part because he chose as a running-mate a man who had been a champion of the right-wing Christian Coalition.
Both could have adverse consequences for the governor, who, as a prospective running-mate for Mr Romney, fancies himself as a bridge to conservatives wary of the moderate front-runner.
Romney has campaigned with Rubio, and he's is much discussed as a possible Romney running mate.
He is now talked of as a possible running-mate for (and successor to) Ms Rousseff in 2014, or an opposition candidate in 2018 a politically profitable ambiguity.
The 37-year-old Indian-American is often mentioned as a possible running-mate, but the McCain campaign scrubbed the New Orleans trip and said the Jindal meeting will be rescheduled.
This Louisiana delegate was hoping McCain would pick Palin as early as June, feeling the need for McCain to increase his cred on "change" and even more so after Obama watered-down his position as the leading advocate for a different style of leadership in Washington by picking a career Beltway politician as his running mate.
Lieberman, a Jew, as his running mate on the Democratic ticket for the White House.
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John McCain's choice of Palin as his running-mate by a 54 to 37 percent majority.
Has the Republican convention and the naming of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate given McCain a bounce in the polls?
He did so successfully when he picked Palin as his running mate, leading to a bounce in the polls.
By choosing Sarah Palin as his running-mate he made a cynical tryst with a party base that he has never much liked and that has never much liked him.
" Heavy access to aides results in a heavily spun story -- "Again and again, Mr. Gore's search was shaped by gritty political concerns that had little bearing on what he had repeatedly described as his single most important criterion for a running mate: someone possessed of the experience and ability to assume the presidency if necessary.
Karzai further angered U.S. officials this week when he named Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a powerful warlord accused of violating human rights, as his vice presidential running mate, despite warnings from Secretary of State Clinton that Fahim would be a polarizing choice.
Even when a candidate chooses a running mate who is perceived as weak--like George H.
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