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Edwards Backer Pushes Obama as V.P.
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Jacqueline Klingebiel Report: If former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards wins the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination, he will find himself under pressure from one of his own congressional supporters to pick Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as his running mate.
"I've been saying from the very beginning that the dream ticket is John Edwards at the top and Barack Obama at V.P.," Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., said Monday during a conference call with reporters. "I can't speak for the campaign to say that that would be the ticket. But from my perspective, that would be just a wonderful, ideal ticket for America and for the Democratic Party."
Watt, a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, made his comments about an Edwards-Obama ticket when asked by the Associated Press if he put any stock in Obama's claim that African-American turnout will improve dramatically in the South if he is the party's presidential nominee.
"It would be a message of stability and southern inclusiveness," he added, "and it would be a message of change that I think would be a resoundingly powerful message."
Back in August, according to an Associated Press report, Obama answered a question about electability by saying, "I guarantee you African-American turnout, if I'm the nominee, goes up 30 percent around the country, minimum."
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I made my calls to both Edwards and Obama's offices last month asking for just this kind of a ticket. I am thrilled and believe they, will in time, be able to reverse some of the damage that has been caused by Channey/Bush to the U.S. people. It will take a very long time to regain the respect of other countries and rightfully so in my opinion. Chris Rushmeier
Posted by: Christine Rushmeier | Oct 22, 2007 11:39:54 PM
The trial attorney who is called the "Breck girl" and a former Muslim. This nation is doomed.
Posted by: Bill H | Oct 23, 2007 10:32:40 AM
John Edwards is not going to win the nomination for president or is Obama. And all candidates have their own mind as to who they would as vice president.
Edwards, Obama ticket will never be because Hillary Clinton is going to win the nomination for president leaving all her rivals out. Obama and Edwards cannot catch up with her percentage wise and she will probably win most of the primaries. I believe Bill Clinton will be campaigning with her at the primaries and there will be a hugh crowd of people when he appears. He is a drawing card for her.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 23, 2007 10:57:40 AM
Chris Rushmeier, Obama and Edwards ticket is just a dream your having. Wake up to realty and keep up with politics. Hillary Clinton percentage wise is beating her rivals and the republicans. There is no doubt she will win the nomination for president and may go on to possibly be our next president. Edwards and Obama are lacking heavy in the polls and will have to do some hard campaigning to win.
When Bill Clinton campaigns with Hillary in the primaries she has the best chance to win. On the republican side her rivals do not have the abilities she has to become president. Just listen to them when they are campaigning. They are a joke.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 23, 2007 11:10:48 AM
It is my personal belief that Edwards will fail in his attempt to garner the Democratic nomination for president. I also think Edwards or Obama will be VP. With my best guess going to Obama slated as her running mate. I think the culmination of a Clinton/Obama ticket will bring out more rednecks and hillbillies from the red states in which should be the highest voter turnout in decades. Blue will prevail finally in a heated/bigoted, racially polarized presidential race!
Posted by: Craig_Vegas | Oct 23, 2007 1:35:52 PM
Anyone who thinks that Hillary's percentage point leads is directly equatable to a "no doubt" primary win are clearly unaware of the simple fact that both history and the reality of the situation disagree. We are still a long three months away from even beginning to call someone a winner.
Both Edwards and Obama have huge grassroots organizations in Iowa, New Hampshire, and the other early voting states - in which Hillary is not leading very far at all. In addition, both Edwards and Obama have only very recently scored important endorsements that will prove important in the early primary states due to the political clout and additional manpower that these endorsements wield.
If anything, counting Hillary as the "inevitable winner" at this point will do nothing but harm her chances at winning. No one likes a perceived fixed election.
Posted by: Micah Thomas | Oct 23, 2007 2:25:02 PM
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