06-10-2024, 01:04 PM
(06-10-2024, 12:39 PM)pally Wrote: Oh I don't think the VP sweepstakes has changed all that much over the years. It's alway leaned more towards balancing the ticket poltically or geographically than who is ready to be President. The only difference is now, like everything else in politics, it is much more out in the open than it used to be
I think it has. You're not wrong that balancing the ticket has always been a priority, but there was also an element of grooming the next POTUS, or at least candidate for POTUS. But now political pandering has overtaken that role in importance. Both Palin and Harris added nothing to their ticket but pandering to gender/racial politics.
