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Originally posted by David Rosenthal:
The VP candidate makes no difference (cf. Dan Quayle and Spiro Agnew).
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Tell that to John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford.
It's mattered a
lot 9 out of 43 times. That's a better than 1 in 5 chance that it'll
matter again.
The odds of it not mattering this time, when the presidental candidate in question is already 72 years old and on disability, is a bit more than I'd be willing to bet on.
And I've got a gambling problem.
[This message has been edited by Laura Heidy-Halberstein (edited August 30, 2008).]