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We at Congress.org would like to know who YOU want your Presidential candidate to choose as a running mate. Do you want someone new and young as Vice President? Older and more experienced? From a particular part of the country? Tell us about your dream ticket by clicking here.


Do you feel vehemently about your VP nominee? Post a Soapbox about it!


Below is a list of suggestions we've received from readers thus far. The number in parenthesis indicates how many people have suggested that person as a Vice Presidential candidate.


Suggestions for John McCain's Running Mate

  • Former Massachusetts Governor and Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney (220)
  • Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (142)
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (37)
  • Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (31)
  • Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell (34)
  • California Representative Duncan Hunter (26)
  • Representative Ron Paul (23)
  • Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (15)
  • Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (13)
  • Former Senator Fred Thompson (10)
  • Former Oklahoma Representative J.C. Watts (10)
  • Florida Governor Charlie Crist (8)
  • Alan Keyes (5)
  • Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (4)
  • Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (4)
  • Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (3)
  • Condy Rice (3)
  • Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (4)
  • Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele (3)
  • Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (3)
  • Former Senator John Edwards (2)
  • Former New York Governor George Pataki (2)
  • South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (2)
  • Senator Hillary Clinton
  • An honest person
  • Someone younger
  • True conservative
  • Experienced Black Woman
  • Christie Todd Whitman
  • Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour
  • Former Georgia Representative Bob Barr
  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
  • Representative John Boehner
  • Lou Dobbs
  • Jesse Ventura
  • Ralph Nader
  • Carla Fiorina
  • Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss
  • South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint
  • Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
  • Former OMB Director/Ohio Congressman Rob Portman
  • Louisiana Senator David Vitter
  • Virginia Senator John Warner


Suggestions for Barack Obama's Running Mate

  • Senator Hillary Clinton (141)
  • Former Senator John Edwards (107)
  • New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (66)
  • Virginia Senator Jim Webb (48)
  • Delaware Senator Joe Biden (33)
  • Retired General Wesley Clark (20)
  • Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel (15)
  • Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (12)
  • Former Vice President Al Gore (10)
  • Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (7)
  • Former Senator Sam Nunn (6)
  • Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (6)
  • Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (5)
  • Representative Nancy Pelosi (4)
  • Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold (3)
  • Representative Ron Paul (6)
  • Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee (2)
  • Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (2)
  • California Senator Barbara Boxer (2)
  • Ralph Nader (2)
  • Representative Brian Baird
  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
  • Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen
  • Former Senator Tom Daschle
  • Representative John Dingell
  • Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
  • Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel
  • Former Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney
  • Mitt Romney
  • Michael Moore
  • An honest person
  • Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (3)
  • Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor
  • Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed
  • Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich
  • Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell

Other Ticket Suggestions

  • Ron Paul with: California Attorney General Jerry Brown (2), Chuck Baldwin (3), Representative Tom Tancredo (2), Michael Badnarik, Mike Huckabee, Mary Ruwart, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Joseph Stiglitz, Ross Perot, Susan Collins, Duncan Hunter
  • Bob Barr and Ron Paul (3)
  • Clinton/Clinton (3)
  • Paul/Dennis Kucinich (2)
  • Chuck Baldwin/Rick Santorum
  • Barr/Tancredo
  • Barr/Huckabee
  • Barr/Hunter
  • Clinton/Biden
  • Clinton and Obama running as Co-Presidents
  • Lou Dobbs/Jack Cafferty
  • Edwards/Huckabee
  • Gingrich/Romney
  • Gore/Obama
  • Huckabee/Brownback
  • Hucakbee/Paul
  • Keyes/Santorum
  • Kucinich/Paul
  • McCain/Clinton
  • Ralph Nader/Cynthia McKinney
  • Powell/Rice
  • Cynthia McKinney/Kat Swift
  • Paul/Hunter
  • Paul/Ross Perot
  • Paul/Joseph Stiglitz
  • Paul/Susan Collins
  • Colin Powell/Elizabeth Dole
  • Romney/Huntsman
  • Mitt Romney/Thaddeus McCotter
  • Sanford/Jindal
  • Thompson/Barr
  • Thompson/Huckabee
  • Dr. Charles G. Vick/Shirley Temple Black

Do you feel vehemently about your VP nominee? Post a soapbox about it!

Last updated 2:59pm, 7/1/08







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