Romney’s vice-presidential pick is crucial next decision of White House race

Friday, July 6th 2012 - 02:02 UTC

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By Andrew Hammond (*) - With polls indicating this year’s race for the White House will be highly competitive, the key decision Mitt Romney has to make before the Republican presidential convention in August is his choice of running mate. Read full article

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“One reason vice-presidents have, in the post-war period, enjoyed particular success in securing their party’s presidential nomination relates to the Twenty Second Amendment in 1951.

This constitutional amendment restricted presidents from serving more than two terms”

As I was saying earlier, until then it was just a convention that the President served two terms, one successfully broken by FDR and attempted to be broken by others. With Cristina in office the current Argentine situation would be best served by the pre-1951 American model of potential unlimmited re-election =)

Other than that an interesting article. I've been seeing some speculation Romney might pick Condi Rice, which would be interesting...
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