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We're all aware of the concept of alternate US presidents ('What if the other guy won?', etc) and presidential candidates (e.g. Reagan in 76 instead of Ford), but what of Running Mates? Maybe it's just me, but it's always annoyed me when I see a timeline about so-and-so winning the presidency, but either never hearing of the Running Mate (which I was under the impression was a very important part of any presidential election) or simply having an OTL candidate going with the same OTL running mate, sometimes despite running in a different year from OTL (Reagan/Bush 76? Somehow, I doubt it).
I know it seems like a minor issue (and it probably is), but it's just one of those little details that can make all the difference. So, I ask who would some of the various alternate candidates that I've seen on this site (e.g. Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, Gary Hart, Hilary Clinton, John Connally, etc) have chosen as running mates?
For example, a little bit of research reveals these possibilities.

- Ronald Reagan/Richard Schweiker (R) in 1976 (assuming Reagan picks his running mate AFTER securing the nomination).
- Jimmy Carter/Frank Church (D) in 1980 (apparently, if forced to make a snap decision, Carter would have chosen Church).
- Ronald Reagan/Donald Rumsfeld (R) in 1980 (based on a possibly apocryphal anecdote from later National Security Advisor Richard Allen - apparently, he recommended Bush to Reagan after the so-called 'Ford Deal' fell through because he had Bush's phone number handy. He later told Rumsfeld, a friend of his, that he would have recommended Rumsfeld is he'd had Rumsfeld's number).
- John Kerry was apparently this close to picking Dick Gephardt instead of John Edwards in 2004, to the point that the New York Post jumped the gun and ran a headline 'confirming' Gephardt as Kerry's running mate.

But I do have to wonder, what other Presidential Tickets could we have seen over the decades?
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