what if...

[mellowtigger]

What if neither Obama nor Clinton won their party's nomination on the first round? Here's an interesting editorial over at Time magazine.

"Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have to be a party to the deal and bring his 1,900 or so delegates along."

It's an interesting thought.

Comments

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Interesting, yes, but there was a very good analysis the other night that pointed out that Obama could not -in the eyes of the Black community- take second seat to a white person at this point. It's not that he wouldn't make an excellent Vice President but that his candidacy, in many ways, has become about precedent-setting as well as president-setting.

Personally, I would love seeing Obama get the White House and then appointing Al Gore to head a new office: Department of Environmental Affairs.

[hilltop.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty conceptual idea.