{"id":3037,"date":"2008-03-28T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/talk-of-a-possible-obamarichardson-ticket-increases\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:12:00","slug":"talk-of-a-possible-obamarichardson-ticket-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/talk-of-a-possible-obamarichardson-ticket-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of a possible Obama\/Richardson ticket increases"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chatter about the possibility of Bill Richardson<\/a> becoming the Democrats\u2019 vice presidential nominee is increasing now that he has endorsed Barack Obama\u2019s <\/a>candidacy. <\/p>\n

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For example, the Washington Post\u2019s blog The Fix<\/a> listed Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> today as one of its five bets on a potential running mate for Obama.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRichardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s decision to weigh in for Obama even as the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright bubbled threw the Illinois<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> senator a lifeline when he badly needed one,\u201d Chris Cillizza wrote in a posting earlier today on The Fix. \u201cThe New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> governor has an extremely deep r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that would nicely complement Obama\u2019s strengths. A Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> pick could also serve as a symbolic olive branch to the Hispanic community, which has gone heavily against Obama in the primaries, and add to the historic nature of the ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Rightpundits.com<\/a> calls Richardson \u201cthe leading candidate\u201d to be Obama\u2019s running mate, pointing out that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> helps Obama out West and in an important swing state, in the areas of foreign-policy and executive experience, and among Hispanics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRarely can a VP pick bring so much to a ticket. In Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s case, as Obama\u2019s VP, he brings executive experience, foreign policy experience, geography and ethnicity to the Democrat ticket,\u201d the site\u2019s posting states.<\/p>\n

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And an unofficial blog<\/a> started in January to promote Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> for vice president is now touting an \u201cObama\/Richardson 2008\u201d ticket.<\/p>\n

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But the site The Presidential Candidates<\/a> suggests there might be a negative to an Obama\/Richardson ticket: It \u201cwould place even more emphasis on race in this campaign, and that makes white folks mighty uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the sad reality. I think the more race is an issue in this campaign, the more difficult it will be for Obama to win,\u201d a posting on that site states.<\/p>\n

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Of course, no one is talking at this point about Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> being a possible running mate for Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city> isn\u2019t, at least publicly, actively seeking the vice presidency, but he\u2019s doing a lot to keep his name in the national news, and few believe he intends to stay in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Many believe he\u2019s more likely to be secretary of state or grab another cabinet-level position than become vice president if the Democrats win the White House.<\/p>\n

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Speculation on potential vice-presidential candidates changes with the news every week. But the talk of a potential Vice President Richardson is worth noting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chatter about the possibility of Bill Richardson becoming the Democrats\u2019 vice presidential nominee is increasing now that he has endorsed Barack Obama\u2019s candidacy. For example, the Washington Post\u2019s blog The Fix listed Richardson today as one of its five bets on a potential running mate for Obama. \u201cRichardson\u2019s decision to weigh in for Obama even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}