Alternate Democratic VP Nominees: 1992.

Who Should Have Been the Democratic VP Nominee in 1992?

  • Senator George Mitchell of Maine, Senate Majority Leader

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  • Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey

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  • Total voters
    36
  • Poll closed .
Presidential Candidate: Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

Who else might Bill Clinton have chosen for his Vice President for 1992? Who would have been the strongest choice for VP? The weakest? Would personal relationships have mattered, or would he have gone for policy/electoral appeal?

The vast majority of these people will be those who ran for President themselves, considered running, or declined to run after being asked, with maybe one or two ideas of who might have been a good or interesting option.
 
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Brown's ideas at the time were a bit too off-base for the Democratic platform - a flat tax in '92 was one of his primary campaign issues, and that dog wouldn't hunt.

Paul Tsongas (from Massachusetts, by the by) would be a pretty smart choice on Clinton's part; he spent the eighties with a successful career in the Senate, a Massachusetts liberal with fiscally conservative ties that wouldn't scare moderates nearly as much as any other Democratic platform would, and he was an overall nice guy; my parents had the guy over a few times, he had some infectious charisma in a similar way to Clinton. That, and it would help give some regional balance to the ticket.

A shame Clinton would have to find another running mate by 1996, though.
 
For the record, I believe that Clinton's other shortlisters were Lee Hamilton, Bob Kerrey, and Harris Wofford.
 
For the record, I believe that Clinton's other shortlisters were Lee Hamilton, Bob Kerrey, and Harris Wofford.

To answer you (and drcynic), Wofford and Hamilton were both on the list (Lloyd Bentsen was as well). But I didn't want to go over 10, and so they were dropped, though either of them would have been interesting choices for VP.
 

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I am a Mario Cuomo fanboy, so I'd hope for him to be chosen as VP, but realistically probably Tsongas.
 
Al Gore was among the better choices here, but if anyone should have been picked instead, that person would be Ann Richards -- Texas was lost by less than 215,000 votes OTL, which given the big chunk going to Perot, was something in her power to close (plus she'd be the first female VP).
 
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