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Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota – who is reportedly high on the list of potential running-mates for Senator John McCain of Arizona – was in Washington today, he was asked this question:
V.P. Watch: Pawlenty’s Turn - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Then, this summer he and his five running-mates for statewide office will need to gather 15,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
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Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota – who is reportedly high on the list of potential running-mates for Senator John McCain of Arizona – was in Washington today, he was asked this question:
V.P. Watch: Pawlenty’s Turn - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Then, this summer he and his five running-mates for statewide office will need to gather 15,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
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Mr. Spitzer, you might recall, made waves in January '06 - four months before the state convention at which running-mates are usually picked - by anointing Mr. Paterson as his No. 2, a move that infuriated some key Democratic players.
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Mr. Spitzer, you might recall, made waves in January '06 - four months before the state convention at which running-mates are usually picked - by anointing Mr. Paterson as his No. 2, a move that infuriated some key Democratic players.
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Asked yesterday about the Democratic runoffs for comptroller and public advocate, Mayor Bloomberg seemed to forget he has Republican running-mates.
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McCain tried like hell to make room for Lieberman on the ticket, floating trial balloons about pro-choice running-mates (while simultaneously ramping up his own anti-abortion rhetoric - an effort to win breathing room from social conservatives) and hoping his closest allies on the right would be able to sell it to the G.O.P. base, but the vocal resistance from many of the right's more prominent voices scared him off.
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We can expect the candidates and their VP running-mates to be active in Florida and the other crucial battleground states from now and until Election Day.
McCain Rally Seemed To Be More Of A Palin Rally In Polk City, FL 2008
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Any woman of any party who was of voting age in 1984 remembers an image that until now was the defining '' wow '' moment of women in politics: Geraldine Ferraro, up there on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, in that traditional, triumphant running-mates arms-upraised pose with Walter Mondale.
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