Could Tim Kaine, right, be Barack Obamas pick for vice president?
[EPA] The presidential candidates will pick their running-mate’s before the party conventions which begin in one month. With the Olympics likely to dominate news coverage in the US over the next couple of weeks, both candidates are likely to try to beat the news blackhole by unveiling their deputies. As the humourist Will Rogers put it, “the man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president’?” Both candidates are likely to consider candidate’s from swing states to try to swing them into their camp, but they would be wise to remember that John Kerry lost North Carolina in 2004, his running mate John Edwards’ home state. Also worth keeping in mind is that eight of the US’s 42 presidents have been replaced in office by their vice-presidents, the last one being Gerald Ford replacing Richard Nixon in 1974. The process The vice-presidential selection teams and an army of lawyers go through potential candidates,
