Obama shouldn't tap Clinton, most Democrats say (but if Clinton is nominee most favor O for VP)

[book_worm]

That sometimes-touted “dream team’’ of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton doesn’t sit well with most Democrats, if Obama is sitting at the top of the ticket. But, if Clinton is topping the ticket, more like Obama as a running mate.

Just 42 percent of Democrats surveyed nationwide say Clinton should be the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, if Obama wins the party’s nomination. Yet 58 percent say Clinton should tap Obama, should she become the party’s nominee.

The reason for “the disparity,’’ the Gallup Poll reports, “is that a relatively small number of Obama supporters -- just 29 percent --favor Obama choosing Clinton as a possible running mate. Seventy percent say they'd rather he choose someone else. And 55 percent of all the Democrats surveyed say he should choose someone other than Clinton.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/obama_shouldnt_tap_clinton_mos.html

[kwenu]

1. Well yeah, because people don't like her.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. If Obama's smart, and I know he is, he will run a mile from her....

Hillary is poison at the top of the ticket, no matter what position. He doesn't need her, but she'll certainly need him, and I hope he won't allow himself to be used, not even in the name of "party unity".

[Taxmyth]

3. I could vote for a Clinton/Obama ticket

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