Former Senator Sam Nunn probably won’t be Barack Obama‘s veep, but he and his type could be an asset: “From a political standpoint, he may be exactly what Mr. Obama needs in a running mate: a seasoned, impeccably qualified and wholly reassuring figure – “gravitas” was the word most frequently used to describe the Cheney pick back in 2000 – with deep foreign-policy experience. That Mr. Nunn is from a Southern state doesn’t hurt, and that some on the left have begun carping about his conservative record on social issues like gay rights is actually a political plus, too – a chance for Mr. Obama to reach out to center-right swing voters who roll their eyes at the liberal interest-group establishment.” And that population outweighs the gays, to be sure. [Observer]
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Alan down in Florida
In order to shore up his foreign policy credentials and to reach out to Clinton supporters Obama could very possibly pick Gen. Wesley Clark as his VP candidate.