Have we ever considered a scenario where Bill Clinton chooses former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt as his running mate in 1992 in order to appeal to westerners and environmentalists? The ticket may lose a couple of southern states Clinton-Gore carried in OTL but could make up for it in the West--indeed in OTL Clinton came within two points of carrying Arizona in 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992 (and did carry it in 1996).
That Babbitt was considered is indicated by this
Newsweek article: "BY THEN, THE JOB OF PICKING a running mate was well underway. Clinton had named a search team: Warren Christopher, a veteran Democratic wise man; Madeleine Kunin, the former governor of Vermont, and Vernon Jordan, a Washington lawyer and civil-rights advocate. There would be no unseemly public procession of candidates to be vetted, Clinton told them; he didn't want what he called 'the Noah's Ark routine.' By late April the scouts had worked up a list of about 40 contenders. During a two-hour meeting in Tallahassee, Fla., Clinton winnowed the names down to Gov. Barbara Roberts of Oregon; Sens. Al Gore of Tennessee, Bob Graham of Florida, John Kerry of Massachusetts, Sam Nunn of Georgia, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia; Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell; Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta; John Sculley, head of Apple Computer Inc.; Bruce Babbitt, the environmentalist former governor of Arizona, and Bill Moyers, the broadcast journalist...."
http://www.newsweek.com/manhattan-project-1992-199740
Would Babbitt be a plausible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000?