What if Obama picked Hillary as his running mate.This effects the 2008 election. I read that 16% of McCain voters had supported Hillary. I think this would have inspired some of them to stay home. I also read that 13 % of Obama voters would not have voted for Hillary. I don't think Obama loses to many of them. I think there is a net gain of voters. Certainly enough to take Missouri. I don't know if there is enough to take the the other close states: Georgia, South Carolina, Montana and the Dakotas. I odn't know who would have been Secretary of State. I think Bill Richardson is first choice, but he has to witdraw. Whomever it is, he or she does not have the same start power. I don't think much changes in policy. Obama Clinton is reelected in 2012 by the same margin. The one thing would be that for 32 years a member of the Bush and Clinton royal families have been President or Vice President.