Congress.org Veepstakes

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