Kennedy, from Massachusetts, picked Lyndon Johnson of Texas as a running mate to win southern votes.
That the President told someone he believes Mitt Romney wants to pick General Petraeus as a running mate.
While it energized conservatives, McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate may have alienated moderate Republicans like Powell, Wall said.
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His prospective presence in the White House is often cited as a reason for Barack Obama not to pick Senator Clinton as a running mate.
It is difficult for a candidate to pick someone as a running mate who is far to the right but still maintains credibility with centrist voters.
Frequently, well-known Republicans appear on Fischer's show, including Newt Gingrich, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whom Mitt Romney is considering as a running mate.
The prospect of Clinton joining the ticket as a running mate remains the subject of much speculation, even as some said they believe the odds of Obama choosing her may have diminished in recent weeks.
Marco Rubio, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate, to draft a Republican version of the DREAM Act.
In fact, Senator McCain was asked if he would consider Lieberman as a possible running mate.
Huntsman has a warm relationship with McCain and has been mentioned as a possible running mate.
He was mentioned as a potential running mate in Bob Dole's 1996 campaign and in George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.
He was tapped the following year as energy secretary, and was mentioned as a possible running mate for then-Vice President Al Gore.
He may also have softened the feminist vote by choosing as a running-mate Florida's secretary of state, Sandra Mortham, who favours choice on abortion.
As speculation builds that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney has his eye on the charismatic 40-year-old Cuban-American as a possible running mate, political observers want to learn everything they can about him.
There is even talk that Mr Romney might bolster his standing among Latinos by picking one as a running-mate Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, say, or Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.
The trap he fell into in 1994 (albeit of his own making) was in enabling his Democratic opponents to portray him as an ultra-conservative, in part because he chose as a running-mate a man who had been a champion of the right-wing Christian Coalition.
Both could have adverse consequences for the governor, who, as a prospective running-mate for Mr Romney, fancies himself as a bridge to conservatives wary of the moderate front-runner.
Romney has campaigned with Rubio, and he's is much discussed as a possible Romney running mate.
The 37-year-old Indian-American is often mentioned as a possible running-mate, but the McCain campaign scrubbed the New Orleans trip and said the Jindal meeting will be rescheduled.
Lieberman, a Jew, as his running mate on the Democratic ticket for the White House.
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John McCain's choice of Palin as his running-mate by a 54 to 37 percent majority.
Has the Republican convention and the naming of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate given McCain a bounce in the polls?
He did so successfully when he picked Palin as his running mate, leading to a bounce in the polls.
By choosing Sarah Palin as his running-mate he made a cynical tryst with a party base that he has never much liked and that has never much liked him.
Even when a candidate chooses a running mate who is perceived as weak--like George H.
He compounded matters by choosing as his running-mate Paul Ryan, a congressman known for his determination to curb the unsustainable expansion in the cost of Medicare, before promptly declaring that he would rescind the cuts to Medicare that Mr Ryan had envisaged.
By just tapping Palin as his running mate, McCain set forth a new course for the party away from the usual suspects and ensuring that even if the Republican ticket loses this Fall, that Palin will remain a national figure and will automatically become the leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2012.
But he still has to find a suitable female running-mate from a neighbouring constituency, if he is to switch as he plans from Westminster to the Edinburgh parliament.
Ex-DPM Musa Hitam said he believed that his former running mate Razaleigh could yet emerge as a leader in UMNO.
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