Give us the NUMBER (sum) of these potential veeps' names acceptable to you.

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Just the total number. If only 4 are acceptable to you, just post ' 4 '

If 36 are acceptable, post ' 36. '

If none are, post 'none.'

If all are, post 'all.'

And so forth.

This is the veep LONG list. Sixty (60) names. It is more or less in alphabetical order. It includes people who have expressly said they aren't interested in the job. It includes people who are oft-mentioned for the job and people who are rarely if ever mentioned for the job. There are some grizzled veterans and some spring pups on the list. There are mostly Democrats, 2 or 3 Republicans, and an Indie or two. Most geographic regions are represented, not all, and most demographic voting groups are represented, though not all.

If you think a name should be on the list I've left off, post that and I'll add it if it's within the edit-deadline time.

Consider both your own preferences as well as the Obama team's political strategies, which I would not expect to be the same list of preferences. Consider also the traditional attributes and considerations for a selection of a vice presidential candidate:

--Can he or she and the candidate get along, work together, enjoy some rapport?
--Is the selection likely to enhance the candidate's election odds?
--Is the selection likely to support the (presumed) president's ability to govern?
--Will the selection serve loyaly and effectively as Senate overseer?
--Might the selection serve to sharpen the candidate's profile among key constituent groups?
--Might the selection serve as steady advisor and counsel to the administration?
--Do core voter groups feel any affinity with the selection?
--Can the person selected handle the thugs & snarkgoblins at FOX News, ABC News, etc.?
--How might the person selected fare in the veep debate?
--Are their affiliate electoral vote advantages to a given selected candidate?
--Were Obama to fall ill could this person step in and govern?
--etc.

How many of the following names are acceptable to you as Obama's choice for the vice presidential nomination?

1 Evan Bayh
2 Joe Biden
3 Michael Bloomberg
4 Barbara Boxer
5 Bill Bradley
6 Phil Bredesen
7 Jerry Brown
8 Sherrod Brown
9 Bob Casey
10 Betty Castor
11 Lincoln Chafee
12 Richard Clarke
13 Wes Clark
14 Max Cleland
15 Hillary Clinton
16 Mario Cuomo
17 Tom Daschle
18 Howard Dean
19 Chris Dodd
20 John Edwards
21 Chet Edwards
22 Russ Feingold
( ) Melinda Gates
23 Dick Gephardt
24 Al Gore
25 Bob Graham
26 Mike Gravel
27 Chuck Hagel
28 Lee Hamilton
29 Tom Harkin
30 Gary Hart
31 Alexis Herman
32 Elizabeth Holtzman
33 Tim Kaine
34 Marcy Kaptor
35 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
36 John Kerry
37 Dennis Kucinich
38 Blanche Lincoln
39 Claire McCaskill
40 Patty Murray
41 Janet Napolitano
42 Sam Nunn
43 Nancy Pelosi
44 Colin Powell
( ) Jack Reed
45 Ed Rendell
46 Bill Richardson
47 Bill Ritter
48 Tim Roemer
49 Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
50 Brian Schweitzer
51 Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
52 Debbie Stabenow
53 Chris Van Hollen
54 Antonio Villaraigosa
55 Tom Vilsack
56 Mark Warner
57 Henry Waxman
58 Jim Webb
59 Robert Wexler
60 Anthony Zinni