{"id":15034,"date":"2012-07-10T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15034"},"modified":"2012-07-10T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:53:04","slug":"chart-timing-of-vp-picks-1980-%e2%80%93-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15034\/chart-timing-of-vp-picks-1980-%e2%80%93-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: Timing of VP Picks, 1980 \u2013 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Klein<\/a> of the Washington Examiner posted an interesting chart showing the timing of vice presidential picks from 1980 to 2008.\u00a0 Notice a trend?<\/p>\n

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Except for John Kerry\u2019s selection of John Edwards nearly three weeks before the 2004 Democratic Convention, all the others picks occurred within a week of or at the respective party\u2019s convention.<\/p>\n

As Klein notes, as of today we\u2019re 7 weeks \/ 49 days away from the Republican Convention in Tampa, so it\u2019s probably waaaaaay<\/em> too early to expect Quin<\/a> (Bobby Jindal) or Troy<\/a> (Jon Kyl) to collect the CFIF office pool money.<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, I\u2019d like a Romney-Christie ticket just to see Chris Christie go after Joe Biden during their debate, play the attack dog on the campaign trail, and land the rhetorical blows on the Obama Administration that Mitt Romney can\u2019t seem to muster.<\/p>\n

Of course, those reasons \u2013 coupled with Christie\u2019s propensity to be baited into a confrontation<\/a> \u2013 are probably the same reasons Romney won\u2019t pick him.<\/p>\n

But if history is any guide, there’s still time for Mitt to get warm to the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner posted an interesting chart showing the timing of vice presidential picks from 1980 to 2008.\u00a0 Notice a trend? Except for John Kerry\u2019s selection of John Edwards nearly three weeks before the 2004 Democratic Convention, all the others picks occurred within a week of or at the respective party\u2019s convention. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,1034,1972,101,160,2729],"class_list":["post-15034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-chris-christie","tag-debate","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitt-romney","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15034"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15040,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions\/15040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}