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In 1992, Bill Clinton defied conventional wisdom about ticket-balancing and chose Al Gore as his running mate, giving the Democrats a national ticket of two youngish southern "new Democrats." Suppose Reagan had done the same in 1980 and chosen Paul Laxalt as his running mate, giving the GOP a ticket of two genial western conservatives? (Nancy Reagan thought that her husband preferred Laxalt and only rejected him for geographical reasons. http://books.google.com/books?id=ywa9p2PNLzAC&pg=PA43) Presumably the ticket wins, but what then? Can Laxalt get the GOP presidential nomination in 1988? After all, he will be younger then than Reagan was in 1980...