WI John McCain had become so incapacitated that he could not run (or had ctually died) in the run up to the 2008 election after the convention.
I had tended to assume the VP candidate would automatically suceed, as happens with an actual president after taking office.
However Palin was being visibly problematic by then.
Would Palin indeed be the Republican canddiate. I assum in that event Sarah's oddities would outweigh a symapthy vote.
How hard would it have been to put some other name at the top of the ticket?
By the way how likely is it in genereal terms not to run the Vp candidate in such a situaition if the vp nomineee did not seem quite mainstream
I had tended to assume the VP candidate would automatically suceed, as happens with an actual president after taking office.
However Palin was being visibly problematic by then.
Would Palin indeed be the Republican canddiate. I assum in that event Sarah's oddities would outweigh a symapthy vote.
How hard would it have been to put some other name at the top of the ticket?
By the way how likely is it in genereal terms not to run the Vp candidate in such a situaition if the vp nomineee did not seem quite mainstream