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corner.nationalreview.com - 8/22/2008
McCain Veep: GAMBLE vs. PLAY IT SAFE, Plus Romney
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An excerpt from the new Veep Diary: Still, Romney is an unquantifiable here. I mentioned yesterday that if McCain were to pick Ridge, 'it will be because he likes him personally and believes Ridge can win Pennsylvania.' Now, it's not clear to me that McCain will make the choice based on whether a veep could carry a particular state, but if he did, I've been told, there is a feeling that ...

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News — ... reports will be McCain's pick, would help McCain more in Nevada and Colorado, which have large Mormon populations, than other veep possibilities would help in their home states, writes The Corner's Byron York . By choosing Romney, McCain would be choosing demographics instead of shifting the debate away from homes and wealth, since Romney himself is worth up to $250 million and owns several houses, writes FiveThirtyEight's ...

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