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The book discusses the importance of running mates in presidential elections, and the authors argue that they are often used strategically. The book specifically focuses on how running mates can shape perceptions of the presidential candidate's ideology.
The idea that she has to pick Josh Shapiro because she will pick up Pennsylvania if she gets it and him on the ticket. Or sometimes we hear about, you know, a male candidate picking a woman as a VB ca...
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The book discusses the importance of running mates in presidential elections, and the authors argue that they are often used strategically. The book specifically focuses on how running mates can shape perceptions of the presidential candidate's ideology.
The idea that she has to pick Josh Shapiro because she will pick up Pennsylvania if she gets it and him on the ticket. Or sometimes we hear about, you know, a male candidate picking a woman as a VB candidate or from some other demographic or religious group that you can just kind of buy voters on the cheap through VP selection just with one fell swoop. And that's what we find really does not hold up.
Where Running Mate Matters is mostly in terms of shaping how people think about the presidential candidate.
So first of all, do they pick someone who's clearly qualified for the office? That's the first test.
Also, VP can shape perceptions of the presidential candidate's ideology.