Hindsight Is 20/20

By Kleinheider Posted on April 17, 2008 at 7:28 pm

The Dallas Morning News discusses considerations when picking a Vice-President:

It helps for a candidate to bring a state, or region, that might otherwise be lost. Al Gore might have become president eight years ago had he picked Sen. Bob Graham of Florida – and had he known he would lose that key state and the presidency by 537 votes.

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Tags: Al Gore, Bob Graham, The Election of 2000

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