Summary
IMAGINE THIS SCENARIO: The country is so deeply divided that the media have color-coded the map of the United States to indicate the partisan chasm one color covers the South and most of the border states, the other drenches the North.
As the presidential election year nears, one candidate, a shoo- in for his party's nomination, has an obvious choice for running mate. Yet he also senses the uniqueness of the moment. So he makes a risky decision: He asks a leader of the opposition to run for vice president alongside him, forming the first bipartisan presidential ticket in U.S. history.See the full content of this document
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Let's Split the Ticket in '08
This is no fantasy. It's the decision Abraham Lincoln made when, running for reelection in 1864, he asked his Republican vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, to quit the ticket in favor of the highly partisan Democrat Andrew Johnson.
Lincoln's experiment in bipartisan...See the full content of this document
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