If McCain picks Romney who then takes Uta& MI, other Mid West States, who does Obama then pick?

[NotThisTime]

Who should Obama pick to then counter that?

It does add a new dimension to the selection of VP for Obama

[AllentownJake]

1. Just because

Mittens won the primary there doesn't mean he wins the GE for Michigan.

No democrat is taking Utah in the next 20 years.

[MattNC]

2. Romney will help

in the Mountain West, specifically Colorado, Nevada, but I don't see where he helps in Michigan. His dad as a former governor won't mean anything to most voters; it only helped in a low-turnout Republican primary.

[NOVA_Dem]

3. McCain doesn't need Romney to get Utah and his Mormonism will hurt the ticket.

I doubt he'll pick Romney

[AllentownJake]

4. We'd actually

have an easier time in VA, NC, and SC if Mittens was on the ticket.

[NotThisTime]

8. That might be a very good point

The news is that he's invited Huckabee & Florida's Governor as well... but that the pundant's did not feel he'd pick Huckabee or Crist...

[AllentownJake]

11. Huckabee

would be his smartest pick. He has an ability to trade very biting barbs that are TV friendly. Huckster had a cruise with his wife this weekend so he said maybe next week.

[CreekDog]

5. okay, but why would Romney take Michigan?

he was born there, well yeah, almost 60 years ago and it's not been considered his home state by a long shot.

[NotThisTime]

7. He took it huge in the Primaries... bet they'd go back to him...

Course the selection of Mittens puts MA solidly behind Obama... he's not at all well liked there anymore.

[Thrill]

20. LMAO you're fooling yourself if you think Michigan would go Red because of Romney

[NJSecularist]

6. Wait...

You think that Obama was going to win Utah if Romney wasn't on the ticket?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Thrill]

19. No one thinks that

.

[Hamlette]

9. He could pick bin Laden and win against Romney

have you been reading the news? Texas, mormon polygamists? Yes, different sects but Americans already think Mormons are strange, that reinforces it.

Won't be Romney.

Will prolly be Hucks.

[NotThisTime]

10. I don't think it will be Huckabee, imagine the noise about his wanting to change the constitution

Huckabee might take the Evangelical fringe, but what about the Independents who aren't going to like him at all, especially when age is an issue for McCain

[Hamlette]

16. you could be right. He won't release his sermons

and when he was defending Wright I wondered if it wasn't because he's said even worse things when he was at the pulpit.

If he were smart, he'd pick that gov of LA just to show the GOP is not the party of old white men.

[Kablooie]

12. Dick Cheney?

[susankh4]

13. Gonna need a strong financial person.

Or we are toast.

But then... Obama also needs a strong foreign policy person... to counter McCain's background.

So... he needs the VP to end all VPs, essentially. To take on the financial issues and the national security issues. Gonna be hard to find I suspect. Unless he goes with someone like, oh say, Hillary Clinton.

[NotThisTime]

14. Because she handles her finances so well? How many military years has she served?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. $20 million in debt + IWR.

Enough said.

[gmudem]

18. Yes because Hillary doesn't have any campaign debt.

And she is a veteran after all.

*rolls eyes* Jim Webb is someone with actual foreign policy experience and is a solid Democrat on economics, much better than Hillary.

[book_worm]

15. Mittens doesn't gurantee Michigan for McCain.